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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C. Joanne Crawford

Dr. Crawford's areas of expertise include clinical psychology, personality, and cross-cultural psychology. She is in private practice in Oakland, working extensively with minority clients. Her clinical work includes...View faculty profile
School
Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Eleanor Criswell, PhD
Distinguished Consulting Faculty

Dr. Criswell is professor of psychology and former chair of the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University. She is the founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute, which is now called Saybrook...View faculty profile
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Devorah Curtis, PhD

Devorah Curtis, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Mentoring and Teaching Faculty in the Graduate School of Mind-Body Medicine. Dr. Curtis completed a doctorate and master's degree in psychology from Saybrook University...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
John Davis, PhD
Sheila Dean, D.Sc

Sheila Dean, DSc, RC, LD, Dean is the owner of Palm Harbor Center for Health and Healing, a functional medicine based private practice and wellness center based in Palm Harbor, Florida. An educator at heart, she has...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Heather Dermyer, Ph.D.

Heather Dermyer, Ph.D. has a Bachelors degree in Behavioral Psychology from Western Michigan University. Her Master’s Degree and Doctoral Degree were earned from Saybrook University, specializing in Integrative...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Marie DiCowden, PhD

Marie DiCowden received her degree in Clinical Psychology from the George Washington University.
Dr. DiCowden is a clinical healthcare psychologist and a behavioral medicine specialist. She writes extensively on...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Kate Donohue
School
Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Jane Drucker, Ph.D.
John Dyckman
School
Clinical Psychology
Magnus Englander

Magnus Englander received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook University in 2001. His dissertation was directed by Amedeo Giorgi. He is a representative of the new generation of phenomenological psychologists....View faculty profile
Patrick Faggianelli, Jr.

Patrick Faggianelli received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr.Faggianelli is a licensed Psychologist who views psychotherapy as a healing process. He integrates Eastern and Western models of...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Joel Federman

Joel Federman, Ph.D., is a writer, teacher and activist. He is Director of Saybrook's Transformative Social Change Specialization,...View faculty profile

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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Claudia Finkelstein
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Robert Flax
Director of Research

Bob Flax, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, educator, activist, and organization development consultant. He is a Faculty Member and Research Coordinator at Saybrook University, Vice President of the Democratic World...View faculty profile
Luann Fortune, PhD

Luann Fortune, PhD is a teacher, scholar, and licensed massage therapist and bodywork instructor. She holds MA and PhD degrees in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University, a BA in Interdisciplinary Social...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Ronald Fox

Dr. Fox is a San Francisco based educator, author, and psychotherapist. His teaching, clinical, and research interests focus on humanistic/transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and research...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Perri Franskoviak
School
Clinical Psychology
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Claire Frederick, M.D.
Distinguished Consulting Faculty

You can learn more about me at www.clairefrederick.com.
I am a Board Certified psychiatrist who specializes in psychotherapy. I...View faculty profile
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Harris Friedman

Harris Friedman received his Ph.D. in Personality-Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University. Harris Friedman has a background as a clinical psychologist, organizational consultant, and program developer. As a...View faculty profile
Johan Galtung
Gwen Gibbs-Wade, PhD

Sharada Gwen Gibbs-Wade brings an interdisciplinary background and approach to her 35 years experience as an Applied Behavioral Scientist. Dr. Gibbs-Wade's career as a consultant in organizational systems, professor,...View faculty profile
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Amedeo Giorgi, PhD

Dr. Giorgi received his Ph.D. in Psychology from
Fordham University. He worked as a consultant to government and industry as a human factors expert for about four years and then decided to become an academician...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Steve Given, DAOM, L.Ac.
School
Mind-Body Medicine
Steuart Gold
MFA, MA
School
Clinical Psychology
Lisa Goldberg, EdD
School
Mind-Body Medicine
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James Gordon, MD
Dean of the College

James S. Gordon, MD, a Harvard educated psychiatrist, is a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. He is the Founder and Director of...View faculty profile
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Terri Goslin-Jones, PhD
School
Mind-Body Medicine
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Benina Gould

Benina Gould received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Institute, receiving the Annual Social Justice Award. She was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship at the Belfer Center for International Studies at Harvard...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Thomas Greening, PhD

Thomas Greening received his Ph.D.in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1958. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in California and has been practicing client-centered, psychodynamic existential-...View faculty profile
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Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Miguel Guilarte, PhD
Barbara Haag-Heitman, Ph.D.

Barbara Haag-Heitman, PhD, is an independent organizational consultant, focusing on enhancing clinical performance and peer review in health care. She also serves on the adjunct faculty for the College of Nursing, at...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Joan Hageman, PhD

Joan Hageman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Behavioral and Health Sciences College (Psychology) of Northcentral University, Prescott Valley, Arizona, where she serves on dissertation committees. Dr. Hageman...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
Shaun Hains

Currently I am an assistant principal at a school for students with Severe Behavior Disorders within Edmonton Public Schools in Canada. I have been fortunate to be a part of the emergence of Indigenous Research,...View faculty profile
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Chanel Helgason, MD
MD

Chanel Helgason, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist board certified in Psychiatry and Integrative-Holistic Medicine. She is also certified in Mind-Body Medicine, is a graduate of the University of Arizona Center for...View faculty profile
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Mind-Body Medicine
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Lenneal Henderson, PhD
Distinguished Consulting Faculty

Lenneal Henderson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his post-doctorate at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Henderson has joined the...View faculty profile