Faculty & Staff Biographies
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Robert Reiser, Ph.D.
Clinic Director
&
Associate Professor |
Dr. Reiser, Kurt and Barbara Gronowski Clinic Director,
is a
licensed Psychologist with major interests in the area of developing and
transporting evidence-based treatments into real world practice settings. With a
background as an executive-administrator in large mental health systems, over
the past several years he has consulted to California county mental health
systems on issues related to quality improvement and clinical guidelines in
mental health services. His primary interests involve developing and improving
treatment guidelines for clients with bipolar disorder and studying a cognitive
behavioral group-based approach to improve treatment outcomes.
Dr. Reiser is a Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Reiser’s
primary orientation is cognitive behavioral therapy with a focus on treating
individuals with major depression, bipolar spectrum disorder and schizophrenia.
An Associate Professor of Psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology,
he also teaches classes in cognitive behavioral therapy and provides workshops,
consultation and technical assistance related to improvements in the treatment
of bipolar disorder in community mental health settings.
Click here: www.robertreiser.com for
more information about Dr. Reiser's approach to treatment and what to expect in
cognitive behavioral therapy.
Click here for information about Dr. Reiser’s book on “Bipolar Disorder: Advances in
Psychotherapy- Evidence-based Practice”.
Click here (PDF) for an
article on the Academy of Cognitive Therapy
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Sandy Macias, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinic
Director & Assistant Professor |
Dr. Macias, Assistant Clinic Director and Assistant Professor
is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her Ph.D. in
Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology from the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she was
trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and worked
primarily with abused and neglected children and their families. Dr.
Macias’ continues to focus her clinical work on the treatment of
children, adolescents, and their families, specifically focusing on
clinical issues such as: behavioral problems, depressive disorders,
anxiety disorders, parenting issues, attachment problems, and
maltreatment. Another focus of her clinical and research work is in
the area of Couples Therapy.
Dr. Macias' past research experience has included the examination
of self-esteem and locus of control issues in mothers without
custody of their children; school bonding and its relationship with
ethnicity and acculturation; evaluation of a three-year after school
homework program; evaluation of a three-year juvenile drug court
treatment program; and the intergenerational transmission of child
abuse. Her current research projects include: examining the impact
of attachment-based couples therapy on couple and child functioning;
and evaluation of a police mentoring program targeted at reducing
recidivism in juvenile offenders.
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Perrin L. French,
M.D.
Psychiatrist |
Perrin L. French, M.D.
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
California Physicians and Surgeons Certificate No. G-023857
Dr. French attended Harvard College and received his M.D. degree
from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland,
completing a rotating internship in Medicine, Psychiatry and
Neurology at Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco. For his psychiatric
training he spent four years on two Harvard Medical School teaching
services: McLean Hospital, Belmont MA (inpatient), and Beth Israel
Hospital, Brookline MA (outpatient).
In 1985, after years of part-time private practice, he began
full-time work at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital (a
Stanford Medical School teaching facility). From the 1970s through
the mid 1990s, Dr. French served on the Faculty at Stanford Medical
School, first as a Clinical Instructor and later as a Clinical
Associate Professor. At the beginning of 2006, Dr. French retired
from the staff of the Palo Alto VA and began part time work as a
Senior Staff Member in the Psychiatry Clinic at Kaiser Permanente
Santa Clara.
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Robin Press, Ph.D.
Director,
Assessment Center |
Dr. Robin Press, Director, Assessment Center
earned a Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling at the
University of Michigan before completing her Ph.D. from Pacific
Graduate School in 1983 and becoming licensed in 1984. She completed
her pre-doctoral internship at the San Francisco Veterans
Administration Medical Center with an emphasis on neuropsychological
assessment and treatment of addictive disorders. She received her
post-doctoral training at the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford where she became a staff
psychologist and then Director of Training at the Stanford Alcohol
Clinic.
Dr. Press has 30 years of experience as a clinician, consultant,
expert witness and teacher. Her primary area of clinical focus is in
the treatment of individuals with addiction-related disorders with
an integrated method of psychodynamic and recovery model approaches.
Dr. Press has extensive experience with psychodiagnostic assessment
on matters pertaining to child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse,
domestic violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, chemical
dependency, parenting and custody disputes.
At PGSP, Dr. Press works as director of the assessment center,
clinical supervisor and instructor in projective assessment.
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Lynne Henderson, Ph.D.
Director
Shyness Clinic |
Dr. Henderson, Director of the Shyness Clinic,
is founder of the Social
Fitness Center, and founder and Co-Director, with Philip Zimbardo, of the
Shyness Institute. Dr. Henderson is also a visiting scholar in the Psychology
Department at Stanford, Consulting Associate Professor in the Education
Department, and a faculty member in Continuing Studies. Her research interests
include developing and empirically testing the social fitness model, the
influence of interpersonal motives on interpersonal perception and social
interaction, cultural influences on self-conceptualizations, and private
self-awareness and emotion regulation in shyness.
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Peter Goldblum, Ph.D., MPH
PGSP Director
of Clinical Training |
Dr. Goldblum, MPH, PGSP Director of Clinical Training
is a pioneer in the development of gay affirmative psychotherapy,
with 30 years experience as a psychotherapist, author, teacher, and researcher.
He is currently senior psychologist and coordinator of the Considering Work
Project at the UCSF AIDS Health Project. Dr. Goldblum has been instrumental in
the development of many community-based programs in the Bay Area, including the
Gronowski Clinic at PGSP, The Pacific Center, New Leaf (formerly Operation
Concern), and was a founder and the first deputy director of the AIDS Health
Project. His publications include two highly acclaimed books: Strategies for
Survival: A gay Men's Health Manual for the Age of AIDS (co-authored with Martin
Delaney) and Working with AIDS Bereavement (co-authored with Sarah Erickson).
The material presented in this course has evolved over many years of teaching
doctoral students at PGSP, clinical interns, and continuing education to
licensed professionals.
"Dr.
Goldblum is open and clear in explaining issues that may be very sensitive. He
gave practical guidelines which are helpful for actual therapy." (comment from
class evaluation of Cultural Issues: Gay Issues in Psychotherapy taught at PGSP.)
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Joyce P. Chu, Ph.D.
Clinical Supervisor |
Joyce P. Chu, Ph.D. Clinical Supervisor
Assistant Professor & Associate Director of Clinical Training
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
Joyce P. Chu earned her BA and MA in psychology at Stanford
University, her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of
Michigan, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
California, San Francisco. Dr. Chu's work is focused around the
treatment of mood disorders in young adults, adults, and elderly
populations. She has a particular emphasis on ethnic minority
populations and diversity work.
Her research is community-collaborative and aims to understand
barriers to service use and develop culturally congruent outreach
and treatment options for underserved communities. Dr.
Chu also consults part time at UCSF developing cultural competence
and social behavioral science curriculum for medical student
education.
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Larry W. Thompson, Ph.D.
PGSP Professor,
Director California Older Adult Assessment & Treatment
Service (COATS) |
Dr. Larry W. Thompson
Director of the California Older Adult Assessment & Treatment
Service,
is a licensed Psychologist and Fellow of the Academy of
Cognitive Therapy. His major interests are in the areas of
assessment and psychotherapy as they apply to the treatment of the
elderly. After receiving his Ph.D. from Florida State University, he
completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the
Indiana University School of Medicine and in Geropsychology at the
Duke University School of Medicine. He then continued to work at the
Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and advanced to the
rank of Professor in the Department of Psychiatry before moving to
the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern
California. He retired from the Stanford University School of
Medicine as Professor, Emeritus after 12 years of service. Since
that time he has engaged in training and supervision of doctoral
students at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and has
recently assumed the responsibility for the development of the Older
Adult Center within the Kurt and Barbara Gronowski Psychology
Clinic.
Dr. Thompson was one of the first clinicians in this country to
present empirical evidence documenting the efficacy of psychotherapy
in the treatment of elderly depressed patients. He has compared
Cognitive, Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapy with antidepressants
in the treatment of moderate to severe depression, and has
co-authored the first book describing the application of Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy in the treatment of older adults. Together with
his wife, Dr. Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, he has co-authored several
manuals based on empirical evidence that describe in detail the
session by session procedures for treating elderly clients with
depression and anxiety.
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Larry E. Beutler, Ph.D.
PGSP
Professor |
Dr. Beutler, PGSP Professor,
is the Editor of the Journal of Clinical
Psychology and a former Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the
American Psychological Society. He is the Past-President of the Society for
Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of APA), a Past President of the Division of
Psychotherapy (APA), and a two-term Past-President of the (International)
Society for Psychotherapy Research. He is the author of approximately 300
scientific papers and chapters, and is the author, editor or co-author of
fourteen books on psychotherapy and psychopathology. . Dr. Beutler is currently
Co-Editing (with L. G. Castonguay) a book on "Empirically defined principles of
therapeutic change" that is co-sponsored by the Society of Clinical Psychology
(Division 12) and the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research. He is
also finishing a second edition of his book on personality assessment.
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Roger Greene, Ph.D.
PGSP Professor |
Dr. Roger Greene, PGSP Professor
has focused his interests on the area of self-report measures of
personality for a number of years. He is currently working on a number of issues
with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), such as how to
match a specific MMPI-2 to prototypic profiles, the assessment of self- and
other-deception, the nature of the critical items, the stability of specific
profiles, and whether MMPI-2 codetypes are taxonic or dimensional. He has
written a number of books and articles on the MMPI and MMPI-2.
Dr. Greene received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1974. He was a
faculty member for 18 years in both the Psychology and Psychiatry Departments at
Texas Tech University before coming to PGSP in 1992. Dr. Greene has been an
active member of APA and was elected to Fellow status in 1993. He has been a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Personality Assessment and
the Association of Couples for Marriage Enrichment.
Area of Clinical Practice:
Dr. Greene has worked in a variety of clinical settings during his career:
outpatient mental health clinics; inpatient and outpatient substance abuse
centers; a number of medical departments (Anesthesiology, Neurology, Pediatrics,
Psychiatry); and private practice. He also works as a consulting expert in
forensic assessment with the MMPI-2.
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Yasmeen Yamini-Diouf, Ph.D.
Clinical Supervisor |
Dr. Yamini-Diouf, Clinical Supervisor
received her Ph.D. from the Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology
Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She went on
to complete her predoctoral internship at the Palo Alto Veterans
Affairs Healthcare System, and her postdoctoral fellowship in the
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Clinic at Stanford University.
She has a special interest in treating individuals with
anxiety-spectrum disorder including posttraumatic stress disorder,
acute stress disorder, social anxiety, and panic. She also has an
interest in unipolar depression, adults abused as children, and
multicultural psychology. Her research background includes the
following subject areas: stress, work adjustment, perceived
discrimination, and severely mentally ill criminal offenders.
Currently, Dr. Yamini-Diouf works as a clinical instructor at
Stanford University. Her responsibilities include psychotherapy and
working as co-practicum coordinator for the PGSP Stanford Psy.D.
Consortium Program.
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Allison Briscoe-Smith, Ph.D.
PGSP
Assistant Professor |
Dr. Briscoe-Smith, PGSP Assistant Professor
earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She then
received her Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley and she completed
her internship and postdoctoral work at the University of California San
Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. Throughout her training her
studies were focused on child psychopathology and diversity issues. After
her postdoctoral work she was the Program Director of a mental health
program serving children as they entered into the Alameda county foster care
system. She now serves as the research consultant of that program. In
addition, she provides clinical services at Children’s Health Council.
Her research has focused on two different topics: trauma/Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder and how children understand race. With these topics she has had
the opportunity to work broadly with many families and schools on issues salient
to them. Her current research focuses on the mental health risks and collection
of basic information of children who are commercially sexually exploited
(prostituted).
Clinically her focus is on working with adult victims of abuse and trauma and
also working with children. In particular, she focuses on dyadic and relational
therapies for young children and behavior disorders for older children. She also
has worked as a school and child care consultant and enjoys the opportunities
that consultation brings. She hails originally from Hawaii and has also lived
and worked in the Caribbean.
Area of Research: Trauma, PTSD, children’s understanding of
race, prejudice, commercial sexual exploitation of children
Area of Clinical Practice: Trauma, behavior disorders of children,
dyadic therapy, consultation with schools or community agencies
Publications:
- The Linkages Between Child
Abuse and ADHD. Briscoe-Smith, A.. and Hinshaw, S. (in press)
- Child Abuse and Neglect. Briscoe-Smith, A., Weaver, C., Van Horn, P., Kimerling, R., Drescher, K. and Lieberman, A. (under review).
- The Factor Structure of PTSD: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Women
Assessed with the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale. Lieberman, A.,
Briscoe-Smith, A. and Van Horn, P. (in press)
- Violence in infancy and early childhood. Johnson and Johnson Pediatric
Roundtable.
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Lynn C. Waelde, Ph.D.
Associate PGSP
Professor |
Dr. Waelde, PGSP Associate Professor,
is a Research Associate at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System. Dr. Waelde
is a licensed clinical psychologist who is interested in the therapeutic uses of
yoga and meditation. A major focus of Dr. Waelde’s current research is the
empirical validation of Inner ResourcesTM,
a psychotherapeutic meditation intervention that she developed. Inner ResourcesTM
is currently being tested in a series of randomized controlled clinical trials
in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University School of Medicine, the
Palo Alto VA Health Care System, and the New Orleans VA Medical Center. The
results of a successful pilot study of Inner ResourcesTM
have recently been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Dr. Waelde is also interested in the diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), with special emphasis on trauma-related dissociation.
Dr. Waelde received her Ph.D. in Developmental Child Clinical Psychology from
the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995. She completed her pre-doctoral
internship at the New Orleans VA Medical Center. She was previously appointed as
a Research Associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder before coming to
PGSP.
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Fran Leili, Ph.D.
PGSP
Clinical Supervisor |
Dr. Leili, PGSP Clinical Supervisor
began her career as an elementary school teacher with a masters' degree in
special education. She transitioned into the field of mental health in the
mid 1970's working in a community mental health center. Dr. Leili received
her doctorate from Fordham University in New York in 1993, having completed
an internship in the adolescent inpatient unit of Yale University Hospital.
From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Leili was the clinical director of the children's
program at a mental health center in New Hampshire. She moved to California
in 1999 where she was director of training for EMQ, a large community mental
health center focused on services to children and adolescents. Dr. Leili's
expertise is in the area of the treament of sexual abuse trauma and she has
taught and spoken on this topic throughout the Bay area. Dr. Leili has been
affiliated with the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology since 2005.
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Jorge Wong, Ph.D.
PGSP Clinical
Supervisor |
Dr. Wong, PGSP Clinical Supervisor
PGSP alumni, completed his internship at Cermak Health Services of Cook
County Department of Correction. Currently he is the Director of Mental Health
Services, Quality Improvement and Compliance at Asian Americans for Community
Involvement (AACI), the largest health and human services providers for Asian
Americans in Santa Clara County. In his multicultural and multilingual capacity
he serves monolingual Asian and Latino clients. Dr. Wong also directs the
clinical training for interns, provides psychological assessments to the Center
for Survivors of Torture, and serves as a consultant to the Domestic Violence
program. For his work as an educator and liaison to the Asian American community
on mental health matters he recently received a Congressional commendation from
U.S. Rep. Mike Honda during May ’07 Asian American Heritage Month.
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Matthew J. Cordova, Ph.D.
PGSP
Assistant
Professor |
Dr. Cordova, PGSP
Assistant Professor,
is a Staff Psychologist in Behavioral Medicine at the VA Palo Alto Health Care
System. He completed his graduate training at the University of Kentucky, his
clinical internship at the VA Palo Alto, and a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at
Stanford University in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Cordova is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in applying
empirically-supported interventions to assist medical patients and their
families. As co-director of the PGSP Early Intervention Clinic with Dr. Josef
Ruzek, he is interested in developing and researching the effectiveness of early
interventions to prevent the development of problems in patients who have
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