Credentials

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and French (BA)

• Three years at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK)
• One year at the University of Plymouth in Plymouth, England
• Degree from UNK awarded summa cum laude 1988
  • Psi Chi Member and Publicity Chair (National Psychology Honorary Society)
  • Phi Rho Epsilon Member and President (National French Scholarly Society)

Masters of Science in Clinical Psychology (MS)

• Pacific Graduate School of Psychology at Palo Alto University 1992
• APA Accredited

Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology (PhD)

• Pacific Graduate School of Psychology at Palo Alto University 1996
• APA Accredited

While in graduate school, I attained comprehensive training and experience in working with dissociative disorders was obtained in trainings from Catherine Fine, Ph.D., Richard Kluft, M.D., Ph.D. and Colin Ross, M.D. I have been working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) since 1992. I have worked with persons with cult and mind control histories and well as those with familial and other abuse.

License to practice independently earned in 1999

I have a special interest in psychopharmacology and Bipolar Disorders so I have taken many classes post-licensure in these areas. I have included the knowledge gained in these classes extensively in my practice since 2002.

Theoretical Orientation

My education and experience have focused on psychodynamic and developmental theories (including object relations) and cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectal behavioral therapy techniques which I have woven together into a unique combination of approaches which ensures that each person is best understood by their developmental needs and their specific challenges and the skills that are needed to heal them.

Clinical Experience

My experience includes working with various cultures with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma, dissociative disorders, crisis intervention, suicide and substance use.

I worked at RAMS (formerly Richmond Area Multiservices) for one year providing individual therapy to adults and children with predominantly Asian and Russian populations.

I provided services for three years at Alum Rock Counseling Center (ARCC) to a largely Latino population. I gained extensive experience in crisis intervention which included managing a 24-hour mobile crisis service for out-of-control and at-risk youth struggling with truancy, gangs and suicide. I worked closely with the San Jose Police to reunite these youth with their families and to keep these youth from getting more deeply into trouble.

In three years at Asian American for Community Involvement (ACCI) I worked with Asian, Bosnian. Serbian and Croatian refugees and asylees and with other Asian Pacific Islanders. Patients from India were included in my caseload. I managed and developed both a substance abuse program for adolescents and a dual diagnosis (mental health and substance use) program for adults. Court ordered and volunteer patients were served with a combination of individual and group treatment that included education about drugs and alcohol, learning new skills and 12-step programs.

I worked for one year of Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, California, in a Maximum-Security Yard providing men’s psychoeducational groups, crisis intervention and suicide and homicide risk assessment.

Teaching and Clinical Supervision Experience

At ARCC I taught practicum students and interns basic clinical skills and unlicensed and newly licensed clinicians advanced clinical skills. At AACI I ran the Internship Program teaching diagnostic and clinical skills to practicum students and interns and supervised the clinical hours they needed for graduation or for licensure.

Psychological Assessment

I have special training and extensive experience in administering, scoring and interpreting personality assessment, intelligence or IQ testing and neuropsychological assessment. I no longer perform assessments for differential diagnosis of psychological disorders or for Traumatic Brain Injury, Learning Disorders, Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, but. I can assist in interpreting and understanding these reports from other clinicians.

Publications

Article and Presentation
Turpin, G., Sturmey, P., London, M., and May, C. (1988, September). Consumer satisfaction with services for people with chronic psychiatric disabilities: The service satisfaction questionnaire. Presented at the Behavioral Therapy World Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dissertation
London, M. (1996). Comparing levels of dissociation and levels of depression, anxiety and trauma sequelae in a nonclinical sample of elementary and middle school children aged 8-12 years. Dissertation Abstracts.

Professional Associations

• International Society for the Study Trauma and Dissociation
• American Psychological Association
• California Psychological Association
• Santa Clara County Psychological Association