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SBGI Faculty Santa Barbara Graduate Institute is proud of its distinguished faculty. Pioneers and leading edge practitioners and researchers convene to create a remarkable graduate education experience. Our faculty is growing as more join the Institute’s vision. Core Faculty
Dr. Benz-Chartrand is a core faculty member at SBGI. He is also an adjunct faculty member at both Pacifica Graduate Institute and Antioch University in Santa Barbara. He is the founder of GroupField, a systems based method for facilitating groups and teams in which he leads trainings internationally. He also conducts professional trainings in Hellinger Constellation Family Therapy in the US and Europe. A former faculty member of the International Professional School of Bodywork, he is a founding member and former senior trainer at the Hakomi Institute. Dr. Benz-Chartrand is author of numerous publications, in both German and English, including To the Core of Your Experience and is the originator and moderator of the Psychology Conferences through Santa Barbara City College. Areas of Expertise: Somatic Therapy, Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Skills, Hellinger Family Constellation Therapy, Hakomi, Transpersonal Development, Health Psychology and Group Process.
Dr. Glenn is founding President of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She has been a pioneering psychotherapist and educator for over 25 years. Her current research interest is in the neuroscience of psychotherapy, especially as it relates to young families and she is currently engaged in infant brain development studies with Dr. Allan Schore. She has facilitated trainings and seminars all over the United States and in Europe. Dr. Glenn is a board member of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health and has been Chair of their past three International Congresses. She has also chaired numerous conferences including Neurons to Neighborhoods: Preventing and Healing Trauma in Children and Adults. She is the founding Clinical Director and current board president of the Center for ReUniting Families where she implemented leading edge pre- and perinatal therapy and trauma resolution techniques with adolescents and their families. She is also a member of the Santa Barbara Citizen’s Continuing Education Advisory Council and is the founding Academic Dean at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Areas of Expertise: Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, Psychotherapy with adults, families and children, Clinical supervision, Group psychotherapy Annual summer yoga workshop for women Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children
Dr. Johnson, Chair of the Somatic Psychology Program at SBGI, is a somatic psychotherapist, somatic educator, and social worker who has taught and practiced in the fields of somatic psychology and somatic education for over twenty years. She is former Director of the Body Psychotherapy Program in the Somatic Counseling Psychology Department at Naropa University and the founding Coordinator of Student Crisis Response Programs at the University of Toronto. As the President of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists, Dr. Johnson was instrumental in the early development of a coalition of mental health professionals who successfully lobbied for provincial government recognition and regulation of the practice of psychotherapy. Through her involvement with various professional associations, she has taken leadership roles in developing an alternate route training program for the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Ontario, organizing conferences through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association and developing bylaws for ethics and standards of practice for Somatic Psychotherapy for the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists. Her research interests include the somatic dimensions of oppression, embodied critical pedagogy, and feminist somatic research methods. Licenses Earned: Registered Somatic Movement Therapist® (ISMETA); Registered Social Worker , Ontario, Canada (OCSWSSW) Areas of Expertise: Somatic Psychotherapy; Somatic Movement Education; Gestalt Therapy; Somatic Research; Embodied Critical Pedagogy
Dr. Kern is the Director of Research for Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She earned a doctorate in organizational behavior from Yale University in 1995 and an A.B. in psychology and French, summa cum laude, from the Univ. of Michigan in 1985. The academic positions she has held include that of research associate at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, MI, teaching fellow at the Yale School of Management, instructor for the Yale University Summer and Special Programs, and assistant professor of management at Iowa State University's College of Business. A consultant to business and non-profit organizations, she has served clients such as McKinsey & Company (the internationally renowned management consulting firm), People's Bank of Connecticut, and Greater Boston Legal Services. Dr. Kern, who served on the editorial board of Gender & Society, researched, wrote, and edited portions of The War for Talent (Harvard Business School Press, 2001), Legacy: Best Practices of Successful Family Companies (forthcoming), and Children of the Boat People: A Study of Educational Success (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1992). She is co-author of the Conflict Management Institute's "Mediation Skills Training Manual." Areas of Expertise: Research Design and Methods, the Art and Craft of Scholarship, Psychoanalytic Theories, Group Dynamics, Intergroup Relations, Gender and Race Relations Aline LaPierre, Psy.D. Clinical Psychology, Ryokan College, 2001 Dr. LaPierre is a psychotherapist in private practice in the Los Angeles area. She weaves together psychoanalytic psychotherapy, depth psychology and somatic psychology. Her background includes extensive training in Body-Mind Centering, Somatic Experiencing, Bodynamics Analysis, EMDR, Neuromuscular Therapy, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Zero Balancing, Jin-ShinJiutsu and Continuum. She is part of Allan Schore’s developmental psychology and neuroscience study group and has authored several articles relating neuroscience and somatic psychology. Areas of Expertise: Somatic psychotherapy, Clinical supervision
Dr. Lyman is the Chair of the Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health. In 2002 she was awarded the "President’s Distinguished Instructor Award" by City University, Seattle. She is passionate about research in the area of early development and has published several of her works, as well as presented her original research at the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health congresses in San Francisco and at the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine congresses (England, 1998 and Italy, 2000). Clinically, she has worked with families, children, couples and adults for the last 15 years. Areas of Expertise: Research, Child and Family Psychotherapy, Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D. Education, Emphasis in Counseling Psychology, University of Southern California, 1986; MS, Family Studies and Human Development, University of Kentucky, 1979; BS, Nursing, University of Kentucky, 1969 Dr. McCarty is founding chair of the Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She has worked with families for 25 years as an obstetrical nurse, childbirth educator, psychotherapist, prenatal and birth therapist, educator, and consultant. She has been involved in consciousness studies for over two decades. Her work with families and professionals comes from a rich synergy of traditional and innovative foundations that integrate mind-body-spirit. She currently provides consultation and coaching services for young families and professionals in prenatal and perinatal psychology. She is the author of Being with Babies: What Babies are Teaching Us. Areas of Expertise: Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology; Therapy with infants, children and families, Transpersonal Psychology Stella Resnick, Ph.D., Psychology, Indiana University, 1966 Dr. Resnick is a psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles and the author of The Pleasure Zone: Why We Resist Good Feelings & How to Let Go and Be Happy (Conari Press). She served as an Assistant Professor of Psychology, at San Diego State University and at San Jose State University. She lectures on Human Sexuality and runs public workshops and professional training groups and seminars on Somatic-Experiential Sex Therapy, a comprehensive approach to working with sexual concerns. Her work integrates Gestalt therapy, breath and body awareness, with a particular focus on relationship and sexual issues. She has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows and is featured in the PBS television series Body & Soul in the segment “Ode to Joy.” She is currently the President of the Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Areas of Expertise: Human Sexuality, Gestalt Therapy, Clinical Supervision Judith Schore, Ph.D. Clinical Social Work, California Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1983 Areas of Expertise: Clinical Supervision, Object Relations Therapy Michael Sieck, Ph.D., Physiology (Specialty area: Neurophysiology and Psychology), UCLA 1967; BA, Stanford University, Biology, 1961 Dr. Sieck is Director of Redlands Therapy Group, a certified Bioenergetic Analyst and a Supervisor for the Southern California Bioenergetic Institute. He taught graduate and undergraduate psychology courses at the University of California, Riverside from 1967 to 1974 and published many papers on brain-behavior relationships. Since 1974, he has been providing psychotherapy services and has published several training manuals and assessment tools. He currently combines elements of Bioenergetics, Gestalt approaches, Jungian ideas, Object Relations and Psychodrama in his practice. He also has a strong psychospiritual orientation and is active in Diamond Heart Work. He presents at conferences and University functions and has extensive experience leading groups of all kinds. For the past 5 years he has co-lead residential programs combining mind, body and spiritual practices in Southern California. Areas of Expertise: Relational Somatic Psychotherapy with emphasis on trauma, early development and characterological transformation. Paula Thomson, Psy.D. Psychology, American Behavioral Studies Institute, 1998. Diploma – Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, 1997Dr. Thomson is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, working in private practice in Tarzana, California. She works primarily with adolescents, adults and couples who have trauma histories, dissociative disorders and/or issues with blocked creativity. Her interest in early attachment led her to the study group of Dr. Allan Schore where she has been an active participant for over six years. She is a regular presenter at the International Society for the Study in Dissociation and has recently published several articles on the impact of trauma on creativity. She has been a tenured faculty since 1982 at York University’s Departments of Theatre and Graduate Studies (Canada) and she is a Full Professor at American Behavioral Studies Institute (California). For over twenty-five years Dr. Thomson has been a teacher at numerous international schools, most notably Banff School of Fine Arts, Julliard School of Music, Stratford Shakespearean Festival and the Canadian Opera Company. Along with having been Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer for Northern Lights Dance Theatre, Dr. Thomson has worked as a professional movement coach or choreographer for most of the premier theatre and opera companies in Canada. She is currently involved in a new research project investigating fantasy proneness, dissociation, trauma and attachment. Areas of Expertise: Somatic and Expressive Therapies; Prenatal and Perinatal Development; Dissociative Disorders and Early Trauma; Neurobiological Development; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D., Reichian Psychology, International College, 1979 Dr. Weaver is the founding chair of the SBGI Somatic Psychology Program and Professor of Somatic Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. She is an internationally recognized workshop leader and has been working with adults and children in private practice for over 25 years.Her therapeutic techniques draw on over 35 years of meditative practice and study of t'ai chi ch'uan, qi gong, sensory awareness, as well as craniosacral, Reichian, and pre- and perinatal therapy. Areas of Expertise: Somatic Psychology, Body/Mind/Spiritual Practices, Sensory Awareness, Tai Chi Chuan, Rosen Method, Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, Resolution of Shock and Trauma, Somatic Reclaiming, Somatic Experiencing, Fluid Tide Craniosacral therapy
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