In addition to SBGI’s core faculty members, the following distinguished scholars are available to serve on students’ dissertation committees.
Core Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Research Faculty | Contributing Faculty
Terri Apter, Ph.D., Psychology and Literature, University of Cambridge, 1987
Dr. Apter is senior tutor and fellow at University of Cambridge’s Newnham College and a faculty member in Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies.
Research Interests: Adolescence; Mother-Daughter Relationships During the Teen Years; Sibling Relationships
Valerie Malhotra Bentz, Ph.D., Sociology, Southern Illinois University, 1975
Dr. Bentz is chair of the doctoral faculty of The Fielding Graduate University’s School of Human and Organizational Development.
Research Interests: Phenomenology; Qualitative Research; Somatic Psychology; Sociology; Feminist Scholarship; Creative Longevity
Christine Caldwell, Ph.D., Somatic Psychology, Union Institute, 1993; MA, Dance and Movement Therapy, UCLA, 1976
Dr. Caldwell is the founder and former director of the Somatic Counseling Psychology Department at Naropa University in Boulder, where she is currently a faculty member.
Research Interests: Somatic Psychotherapy; Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology
Elizabeth Cara, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, 2000
Dr. Cara is an associate professor in San Jose State University’s Department of Occupational Therapy.
Research Interests: Psychosocial Occupational Therapy; Occupational Therapy with Mood, Personality, and Dissociative Disorders; Psychobiography as a Research Method
Jacqueline A. Carleton, Ph.D., Psychiatric Sociology and Middle East Studies, Columbia University, 1986
Dr. Carleton is a senior faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics in New York City and the International Core Energetic Institutes in Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and Mexico.
Research Interests: Applied Clinical Neuroscience; Trauma and Somatic Experiencing; Imaginal Work; Sexuality and Intimacy; Developmental Life Span; Qualitative Research; Cross-Cultural Research (especially in The Middle East); Attachment; Object Relations; Spirituality and Psychotherapy; Body Psychotherapy
Geoffrey Carr, Ph.D., Clinical and Physiological Psychology, McGill University, 1985
Dr. Carr has served on the faculties of the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.
Research Interests: Research Design; Parenting Capacity; Psychotherapy; Play Therapy’s Impact on Early Trauma for Later Functioning
Harris Chaiklin, Ph.D., Medical Sociology, Yale University, 1961
Dr. Chaiklin is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
Research Interests: Pragmatism and the Social Aspects of Practice; The Nature of Profession; The Justice System; Developmental Disability; The Family
Anna Coutsoudis, Ph.D., Medical Science, University of Natal, 1994
Dr. Coutsoudis holds the post of professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Research Interests: Perinatal Nutrition; Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV; HIV Care and Treatment of Adults and Children
Reagan Curtis, Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999
Dr. Curtis is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Human Resources and Education’s Department of Technology, Learning and Culture at West Virginia University.
Research Interests: Research Methods (Quantitative, Mixed Methods, Qualitative, Action Research, and Program Evaluation); Cognitive Development; Online Education
Sandra Dibbel-Hope, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, 1989
Dr. Dibbel-Hope is a faculty member at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, CA.
Research Interests: Expressive Arts Therapy; Authentic Movement
Kathleen Dyer, Ph.D., Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001
Dr. Dyer is Assistant Professor of Child, Family and Consumer Sciences at California State University Fresno.
Research Interests: Parenting Practices Pertaining To Perinatal Sleep; The Relationship of Perinatal Sleep Practices to Attachment and Emotional Development
Linda Finlay, Ph.D., The Open University, 1999
Dr. Finlay is a lecturer at the University of Belgrade in Serbia where she teaches in the Master’s programme in psychotherapeutic studies.
Research Interests: Phenomenological Explorations of the Lived Experience of Disability and Trauma; Qualitative Research on Mental Health and Illness; Researcher Subjectivity and Reflexivity
Alan Fogel, Ph.D., Education, University of Chicago, 1976
Alan Fogel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah.
Research Interests: Perinatal Communication and Emotion; Developmental Theory; Interpersonal Relationship Change; Developmental Neuroscience; Psychophysiology of Embodied Self-Awareness; Therapeutic Practices That Enhance Embodied Self-Awareness
Mary J. Giuffra, Ph.D., Research and Theory Development in Nursing Science, New York University, 1973
Dr. Giuffra earned tenure at New York University in the Steinhardt School’s Graduate Nursing Division and was co-director of NYU’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Group Care of Perinatals and Toddlers. She was also a tenured full professor and founding director of innovative BS and MS nursing programs at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY.
Research Interests: Trauma; Couples and Family; Touch in Psychotherapy; Theory Development
Bill Hughes, Ph.D., University of Aberdeen, 1986
Dr. Hughes is Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland.
Research Interests: Disability; The Body; Impairment; Social Theory
Daniel Hughes, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Ohio University
Dr. Hughes who is in private practice in Pennsylvania has written numerous books and articles on attachment parenting including Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting and Attachment-Focused Family Therapy both published by Norton.
Research Interests: Attachment-focused Parenting
Gregory Johanson, Ph.D., Psychology and Religion, Drew Graduate School, 1999
Dr. Johnson is Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Drew University in Madison, NJ and a Hakomi Institute trainer.
Research Interests: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy; Spirituality and Psychotherapy; Somatic Psychology and Psychotherapy; Integral Psychology (Ken Wilber); Interpersonal Neurobiology; Character Development; Pastoral Psychotherapy; Hakomi Therapy; Internal Family Systems Therapy
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., Developmental and Social Psychology, Brandeis University, 1990
Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine and the acquisitions and development editor of Hale Publishing.
Research Interests: Perinatal Depression; Health Effects of Trauma; Child Maltreatment; Psychoneuroimmunology
Michael Klein, M.D., Stanford University
Dr. Klein is Professor Emeritus of Family Practice and Pediatrics at University of British Columbia. He served as a Full Professor in Family Medicine at McGill University until 1992 and was a visiting professor at Harvard University’s and Oxford University’s medical schools.
Research Interests: Evaluation of Old and New Technologies In Maternity Care; Determinants of the Rising Cesarean Section Rate; Attitudes and Beliefs of Maternity Care Providers And Women; Misuse of Randomized Controlled Trials; Evidence-Based Maternity Care; Attitudes and Beliefs of Medical, Nursing, Midwifery Students and OB/Gyn, Pediataric and Family Practice Trainees; How To Change Maternity Care Practice
Christine Knauss, Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland, 2008
Dr. Knauss is a Research Fellow at the Department of Counselling and Psychological Health, School of Public Health, at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
Research Interests: Quantitative Research; Prevention of Eating Disorders; Body Dissatisfaction
Ingela Lundgren, Ph.D., Medical Science, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uppsala University, 2002
Dr. Lundgren is an associate professor at University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Research Interests: Phenomenology; Birth Experiences; Midwifery; Birth Trauma
Lewis Mehl-Madronna, M.D., Stanford University, 1975; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Stanford University, 1980
Dr. Mehl-Madronna is an Associate Professor with Argosy University, Department of Psychology in Honolulu, Hawaii, clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, and adjunct professor in anthropology with Johnson State College, Vermont.
Research Interests: Efficacy of Indigenous and Aboriginal Traditional Cultural Healers; Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Autism; Narrative Psychotherapy of Psychosis; Social Constructionism and Psychotherapy; Aboriginal Somatic Therapies
Lyndsey Moon, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Essex
Dr. Moon is a Senior Research Officer at Warwick University and a Lecturer in the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology Program at City University in London.
Research Interests: Sex; Sexualities and Genders; Queer Theory; Qualitative Research Methods
Mary Sue Moore Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, 1981
Dr. Moore is a clinical psychologist with the Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy Research and is on the faculty of the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic in London. In 1986 she was awarded a Fulbright Collaborative Research Grant under the supervision of John Bowlby.
Research Interests: Attachment Process; Traumatic Attachments; Integrating Neurobiology and Psychotherapeutic Process; Children’s Drawings (Especially as Related to Trauma Assessment and Therapy); Sequelae of an Interpersonal Trauma History (Abuse or Illness within the Family); Impact of Childhood Medical Treatment on Adult Sleep Patterns; Identifying and Treating Perceptual Learning Difficulties
Andrew Newberg, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1993
Dr. Newberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with secondary appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Religious Studies.
Research Interests: Neuroimaging Research on the Study of Aging, Dementia, Epilepsy, and Other Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders; The Neurophysiological Correlates of Acupuncture, Meditation, and Other Types of Complementary Therapies; The Relationship Between Brain Function and Mystical or Religious Experiences
Gina Ogden, Ph.D., Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, 1981
Dr. Ogden is in private practice providing psychotherapy and sexual therapy to individuals, couples, and families in Cambridge, MA.
Research Interests: Human Sexuality
Bruce Duncan Perry, MD/Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1984
Dr. Perry is Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston and the Thomas S. Trammell Research Professor of Child Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.
Research Interests: Children and Trauma; The Effects of Prenatal Drug Exposure on Brain Development; The Neurobiology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders; The Neurophysiology of Traumatic Life Events
Jeane Rhodes, Ph.D., Pre and Perinatal Psychology, Union Institute, 1997
Dr. Rhodes is on the faculty of Red Rocks Community College in Colorado.
Research Interests: Prenatal Experience; Child and Spousal Abuse
Michael Sieck, Ph.D., Physiology (Specialty in Neurophysiology and Psychology), UCLA 1967
Dr. Sieck, Director of Redlands Therapy Group, is a certified Bioenergetic Analyst and supervisor for the Southern California Bioenergetic Institute.
Research Interests: Relational Somatic Psychotherapy with Emphasis on Trauma; Early Development and Characterological Transformation
Sarah K. Sifers, Ph.D., Clinical Child Psychology, University of Kansas, 2003
Dr. Sifers is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Research Interests: Resilience; Clinical Child Psychology; Ethics in the Practice of Psychology
Sharon Sims, Ph.D., Nursing, University of Utah, 1986
Dr. Sims is Full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Family Health Nursing at Indiana University.
Research Interests: Behavioral Pediatrics; Pediatric Home Health Care; Interpretive Research Methodologies
Roanne Thomas-MacLean, Ph.D., University of New Brunswick, 2001
Dr. Thomas-MacLean is an Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Saskatchewan.
Research Interests: Cancer Survivorship; Women’s Health; Primary Health Care; Qualitative Methods; Sociology of Health
Paula Thomson, Psy.D., Psychology, American Behavioral Studies Institute, 1998; Diploma, Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, 1997
Dr. Thomson is a faculty member at CSU-Northridge and has been a tenured faculty member since 1982 in York University’s Departments of Theatre and Graduate Studies in Toronto.
Research Interests: Somatic and Expressive Therapies; Prenatal and Perinatal Development; Dissociative Disorders and Early Trauma; Neurobiological Development; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Lenore Wadsworth Hervey, Ph.D., Research Methods and Creativity Studies, The Union Institute and University, 1999
Dr. Hervey is a full-time faculty member and the Research and Assessment Coordinator in Columbia College’s Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Department.
Research Interests: The Creative Process in Research; The Research Advisee/Advisor Relationship; Adult Transformation and Graduate Education; The Ethical Dilemmas of Dance/Movement Therapists; Embodied Writing
