Faculty Directory

 

Saybrook University faculty are renowned academics and accomplished practitioners dedicated to advancing human potential to create a humane and sustainable world. Their work crosses boundaries and changes lives.

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John Adams, Ph.D.

Dr. Adams is the author of Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness (2000) and Life Changes (1990) and the editor of Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership (2nd editions 1999...View faculty profile
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Organizational Leadership and Transformation
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Walter Anderson, PhD
Distinguished Consulting Faculty

Dr. Andersen received his Ph.D.in Political Science and Social Psychology from the University of Southern California. Dr. Andersen's work is interdisciplinary, exploring the big picture of what the human species is and...View faculty profile
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Marc Applebaum

My area of expertise is descriptive phenomenology--both the psychological research method developed by Amedeo Giorgi at Duquesne and Saybrook, and the foundations of this approach in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
John Bagnulo
Jonathan Balcombe, PhD
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Mind-Body Medicine
Howard Barkan
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Carol Barrett, PhD

Carol Barrett holds doctorates in both clinical psychology and in creative writing, with graduate minors in social psychology, the psychology of aging and religious studies. She also has a master's degree in physical...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Michael Bartholomew, Ph.D.
Julie Beischel

Julie Beischel received her doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona in 2003 where she later served as the William James Post-doctoral Fellow...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Valerie Bentz, PhD

Valerie Bentz, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Human and Organizational Development, Fielding Graduate School. She is author or co-author of five books, including a textbook on Transformative Phenomenology (...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Ann Bernhardt, PhD
Director, Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)

Dr. Bernhardt has 40-years experience in psychotherapy and analytic practice, supervision and consultation, applied research, multidiscipline teaching, and professional training in clinical and academic settings in...View faculty profile
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Clinical Psychology
Doris Bersing, Ph.D.
Director of Clinical Training and Clinical Placements

Dr. Bersing received her doctorate from L'Universite de Toulouse-Mirail in France. As a clinical psychologist and a Gerontologist she has taught and led therapeutic groups and academic circles in Europe, South America...View faculty profile
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Clinical Psychology
Elizabeth Bigham, PhD

Elizabeth Bigham, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist with interests in the psychophysiological mechanisms of pain, health and chronic medical conditions and assessment psychological and physiological factors in...View faculty profile
Abbe Blum
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Susan Blum, MD, PhD

Susan Blum, MD, MPH, is an integrative physician, who directs the Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, New York. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Art Bohart, PhD
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Clinical Psychology
Bill Braswell

For over 25 years, Bill Braswell has been an innovative educator, business manager and consultant. He specializes in helping managers implement change initiatives, develop leadership skills, and improve process and...View faculty profile
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Alan Briskin

Dr. Briskin is the author of The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, winner of the 1997 Body Mind Spirit Award of Excellence, and co-author of The Power of Collective Wisdom and Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday...View faculty profile
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Organizational Leadership and Transformation
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Patti Britton, PhD

Patti Britton, PhD, is a board-certified clinical sexologist, sex coach, and sexuality trainer/educator, leading professional trainings and private sessions for individuals/couples. She is a past-president of the...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Marvin Brown

Marvin Brown, Ph.D. will be teaching “Ethics of Social Transformation, Thinking like a Global Citizen,” Fall, 2013. This course brings together his interests in social justice, civic ethics, and...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Bill Bruff

William Bruff received his Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles in clinical psychology. He completed counselor training in an intensive person centered Master's Program at Harvard...View faculty profile
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Clinical Psychology
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Joanne Brunn, PhD

Joanne Brunn received her Ph.D. in Human Sciences with a certificate in Creativity Studies, and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

She is currently enjoying...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Robert Buckley, M.D.

Bob Buckley, LCSW, was Director of Consultation, Education and Training for Community Mental Health in Alexandria, Virginia for 21 years, and now serves as senior faculty member and clinical supervisor with The Center...View faculty profile
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Bonnie Burstein

Dr. Burstein is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has long-standing research and applied interests in innovative, cost-effective, mental health service delivery. Studying and teaching the components of "helping...View faculty profile
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Clinical Psychology
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Jose Calderon-Abbo, PhD

Dr. Calderón is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine, with an additional certification in mind-body medicine.

He has been an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry with LSU...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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George Callan, PhD, LMFT

George Callan, Ph.D., LMFT-George is a depth psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist whose clinical and academic interests include systems counseling, archetypal psychotherapy, dream work, and...View faculty profile
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Clinical Psychology
john Carter, PhD

John D. Carter is an internationally prominent organizational consultant, business advisor, executive coach, and innovative educator. In 2009, he received the Organization Development Network Lifetime Achievement Award...View faculty profile
CEU CEU
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Mary Kay Chess, PhD

Mary Kay Chess, PhD, is a seasoned entrepreneur and an intrapreneur within healthcare and an executive coach and consultant for individuals, making a difference in the delivery of care in communities and neighborhoods...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
Organizational Leadership and Transformation
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Scott Churchill

Scott Churchill received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Dusquesne University. Dr. Churchill is a professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, a licensed psychologist, and specialist in humanistic...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Kenneth Cloke

Kenneth Cloke is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, attorney, coach, consultant, and trainer, specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party...View faculty profile

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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Thomas Cloonan

Thomas F. Cloonan received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Duquesne University. Dr. Cloonan's areas of research are phenomenology, psychology, methodology, history of phenomenological psychology and philosophy, art and...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Daniel Coffman

Daniel A. Coffman, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School (2001) in Humanistic & Transpersonal, Clinical Inquiry, and Health Studies;

M.A. in Interdisciplinary...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Allan Combs

Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist. He holds appointments at the Saybrook Graduate School, The California Institute of Integral Studies where he is Director of the...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Constance Corley, PhD

Connie S. Corley, MSW, MA, PH.D., is Professor, Doctoral Program in Human and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University and a Professor in the School of Social Work/Associate Director of Life-long...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
Lyn Cowan
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry