Virtually all of our faculty members have published major books or articles, while also serving full time as “working” professional psychologists. We attract an exceptional faculty in large part because of our student body and because these faculty members can continue their other work. All of our programs allow for the rich interaction that most theorists, researchers and practitioners seek in their professional lives. In many cases, our faculty members were themselves mature adults when obtaining their doctorate. They can fully appreciate the challenges faced by their students and know how to bring the exceptional experiences and expertise of their students into the PSP community—just as they are bringing their own experiences and expertise into this unique community.
Following is a listing of our core faculty members. We also offer a sample of the work published by our faculty. We have included an excerpt from William Bergquist's book on The Creation of an Appreciative Organization.
William Bergquist, Ph.D.
As author of more than 40 books and 50 articles, William Bergquist writes about profound personal, group, organizational and societal transitions and transformations. Dr. Bergquist has conducted research and scholarship in North America, Europe and Asia to establish the foundation for his written work. His publications range from the personal transitions of men and women in their 50s and the struggles of men and women in recovering from strokes, to the experiences of freedom among the men and women of Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His book, The Postmodern Organization, has been identified as one of the 50 classics in organizational theory and has been translated into both Italian and Mandarin. In Our Fifties (with Klaum and Greenberg) was featured on Good Morning America and in several metropolitan newspapers. The Vitality of Senior Faculty (with Carole Bland) received the annual research award in 1998 from the American Educational Research Association. The Four Cultures of the Academy, Engaging the Six Cultures of the Academy (with Ken Pawlak), Designing Undergraduate Education (with Gould and Greenberg), and A Handbook for Faculty Development (three volumes) (with Steven Phillips) have been widely acknowledged and cited as seminal publications in the field of higher education.
William Bergquist has served throughout the world as a consultant, coach and/or trainer to leaders in more than 1,000 corporations, government agencies, human service agencies, college and universities, and churches over the past 35 years. He co-founded (with John Lazar) the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations (now in its fifth year of publication), and co-founded the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO). He now serves as one of two deans of a highly innovative two day program (called the ICCO Symposium) that engages dialogue among coaches, users of coaching services and those conducting research or providing training and education regarding organizational coaching.
Dr. Bergquist has served as professor and educator in the fields of psychology, management, public administration, organization development and public policy at more than two dozen colleges, universities and graduate institutions. The postsecondary institutions in which he has taught range from the University of California in Berkeley, California to the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute in Tallinn, Estonia.
Betsy Eubanks, Psy.D.
Dr. Eubanks began her career with the University of California (Berkeley) as the Director of Parking & Transportation, and based on her operational experience, determined to study organizations with the goal of making them better places to work. She has since gained experience with a range of clients in areas such as non-profit, insurance, communications, transportation, emergency services, and technology implementation. In her work, she develops unique solutions to client concerns by applying theoretical concepts like organizational lifecycle, innovation diffusion, and hermeneutics of communication to organizational problems.
Betsy has unusual expertise in collaborative learning. She earned her Master’s Degree in Management and Organizational Transformation in a cohort model program and participated in a pioneering cohort doctoral program called the Pacific Learning Community at PSP. Dr. Eubanks served for three years as Provost of PSP. She continues to teach Attitude Theory and Organizational Theory as well as advising on student Conspectus work and serving on Dissertation Committees. She is certified in Executive Coaching from the Center of Executive Coaching.
Sara Galbraith, Psy.D., MFT
Dr. Galbraith has been a practicing psychotherapist for the past 18 years. She received her Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from The Professional School of Psychology and her Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University. Her graduate training included counseling internships at Catholic Social Services, AFTER/Parents United and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America.
Dr. Galbraith is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Sacramento, California. She has served for the two years as Director of PSP unique doctoral tutorial program in clinical psychology. Her clinical interests include individual and family counseling specializing in depression, anxiety, physical and sexual abuse, adjustment disorders, co-parenting and families in transition.
Nadine Greiner, Ph.D.
Nadine Greiner is noted as a skilled and knowledgeable provider of Interim Leadership and Executive Coaching. Dr. Nadine Greiner has a 20 year background in leadership, and a dual Ph.D. in Organization Development and Clinical Psychology from PSP. She has served as Interim Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, and Vice President in organizations of a variety of sizes and stages of growth. The industries in which she has the most experience are Non-Profit, Healthcare, and Financial Services.
Nadine is fluent in written and spoken French, has multi-cultural experiences from living and/or working in England, France, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Zambia, New Caledonia, and the United States. Dr. Greiner has worked with such diverse organizations as the Bank of America Corporation, California Pacific Medical Center, Charles Schwab & Co., the City of San Francisco, the Episcopal Diocese of San Francisco, the Oracle Corporation and The Sierra Club.
Larry G. Lee, MBA, EdD
During the last thirty years, Larry has worked for two companies, The Boeing Company and Birkman International. However he has a long history of assessment and assessment-based interventions from the business community located across four continents. For example, he has assessed and provided guidance to professionals at Walmart, ABN AMRO Bank, the ABB Group, Cox Communications and U.S. Federal Government.
Assessment: At Birkman International, an international assessment provider, Larry was the Senior Director of Research and Development for four years. In this role, he selected, hired and managed graduate level psychometricians, developed the R&D statement of work, created performance objectives, authored a journal article on managing diversity from a personal perspective and contributed as a member of the company's leadership team. In 2008, Larry was responsible for the creation of and a contributing author to The Birkman Method Manual. This manual codifies the assessment's theoretical background, scales, classical and item response psychometric properties, administration and translation processes, correlations to other assessments, and normative datasets.
Larry has over twenty years of experience in using assessments as the foundation for developing and presenting interpersonal effectiveness seminars, developing and teaching leadership programs, coaching executives, creating management teams, analyzing management-labor negotiations, selecting promotion candidates, evaluating team effectiveness, providing career guidance and resolving interpersonal conflict. Larry was also the assessment leader for the Boeing Company. In that role, he evaluated and selected the assessments to be used within the company, developed executive coaches, coached executives at the leadership center, developed and taught the mid-level management assessment curriculum, consulted senior managers, and guided a team of 70 assessment professionals.
Training, Consulting, Coaching: Larry has spent substantial time at the Boeing Company as a Senior Organizational Effectiveness Consultant and Executive Coach. As a consultant, he guided managers and executives to effectively lead their organizations through changes and mergers. As a coach, Larry was co-developer of the executive coaching program for the Boeing Company. In that role, he selected and trained executive coaches, developed and provided individual executive coaching programs for those executives desiring "long term" coaching support.
Prior to those assignments, Dr. Lee represented his division in developing a company-wide 360º management assessment. He was also responsible to create and manage an assessment center which processed the data for 3,500 divisional managers. Larry also assessed and coached professionals ranging from non-managers in developmental programs to international leaders. His work addressed interpersonal and organizational issues within engineering research and design, banking and finance, manufacturing and quality assurance, training and management development, international sales and marketing, program and project management, mathematics and computing, and human resource professionals.
Larry Lee served for many years as the Senior Director of Research and Development at Birkman International. In this role, he led a team of psychometricians in developing and improving assessments in the areas of personality, intelligence, motivation, and societal perspective. While most of Larry's publications have been retained within the sponsoring corporations, he has published in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, and, in 2008, published The Birkman Method Manual which describes the psychometric attributes of this assessment.
Prior to joining Birkman International, Dr. Lee worked at The Boeing Company, serving as a Master Executive Coach and Senior Organizational Development Consultant. Larry has also served as a program manager and developer of curricula for Boeing’s Executive Potential, High Potential and Mentor programs. Dr. Lee was twice awarded the “Highest Rated Instructor” for management and leadership courses within Boeing. As a practitioner, Lee has traveled extensively to teach on, and to provide personal attention to, improving performance within organizations.
Richard Lichtman, Ph.D.
Dr. Lichtman is a well-known teacher and author who has trained and studied intensely in philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy and social theory. His perspective develops the interrelations among a wide variety of disciplines and is founded on the conviction that the truth lies in the totality, not in isolated parts of the whole. He has taught in the philosophy department at the University of California at Berkeley, been a fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, the humanities department at San Francisco State University, the sociology department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, as well as many other institutions in the United States and Europe. For the last thirty years Richard Lichtman has taught social psychology, theory and methodology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley California.
His writings indicate the range of his interests. The Production of Desire is an analysis and evaluation of the numerous attempts that have been made to integrate the works of Marx and Freud. Essays in Critical Social Theory is an application of critical theory to a wide range of subjects in economic, political and social theory. Dying in America is a critical analysis of contemporary theories of death and dying and a memoir of his father and his death. Dr. Lichtman has also contributed to a large number of scholarly journals. He is currently working on a volume that will provide a basic critique of the notions of normalcy and pathology that underlie contemporary psychology and therapy.
Linda Page, Ph.D.
Linda Page is President and Founder of the Adler School of Professional Studies in Toronto, Canada, and from 1992 to 2006 led the local administration of the M.A. in Counseling Psychology degree granted by the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Adler in Illinois, where she is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She taught social psychology, cognitive psychology, learning, motivation and emotion, and gender studies and was co-founder of the Gender and Ethnocultural Studies Center as a member of Adler’s core doctoral faculty from 1992 to 1998.
Dr. Page was a psychotherapist in private practice from 1980 to 1995. She chairs the Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutions, a group of educators who have proposed a curriculum for a minimum standard for regulation of psychotherapists in Ontario. In 1998, Dr. Page founded Adler International Learning (formerly Adler School of Professional Coaching) and has served as its President since that date. Adler’s Professional Coaching Program was the first in Canada to be certified by the International Coach Federation and is the only ICF-certified program in the world based on Adlerian principles. In 2007, Adler and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto signed a co-sponsorship agreement for Certificates in Leadership Coaching, a series of programs to promote leadership development among organizations, their leaders, coaches, and coaching students. Dr. Page became an Adler Certified Professional Coach in 2002. She serves on the Board of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching, the Research Advisory Board for The Coaching Institute, and the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations.
With David Rock, Dr. Page co-authored Coaching with the Brain in Mind: Foundations for Practice (Wiley, August 2009). She has published papers and is in demand internationally to present on theoretical foundations of coaching, brain-based competencies for psychosocial change agents, and the practical implications of a shift from a mechanistic to a systemic worldview.
Dorothy Siminovitch, PhD., MCC
Dorothy E. Siminovitch, principal of AWAREWORKS International, is a Master Certified Coach and consultant to organizational leaders around the world. In 2002, she co-founded and is the Chair of the International Gestalt Coaching Program (IGCP), the only Gestalt-based coach training program awarded International Coach Federation certification. As a faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the GestaltOSD center, Dorothy honed the rich teaching, coaching, and consulting skills that she now brings to all her work.
Her current gestalt institutional affiliation is with the Gestalt International Study Center. She is also a Board member of The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. Through AWAREWORKS International, Dr. Siminovitch provides transformative Gestalt-based coaching and consulting services to individuals, teams and organizations. Dorothy’s work is distinctive in that she creates a cross-cultural and broad-based forum for conversation with outstanding leaders in coaching, consulting, and Gestalt theory development.
Gay Teurman, PsyD, MFT
Gay Teurman is the Dean of Clinical Programs for the Professional School of Psychology. She is an alumnus of PSP in her Master’s in clinical studies as well as her doctorate in Clinical Psychology. In addition to Dr. Teurman’s role with PSP she serves as a Mental Health Program Coordinator with Sacramento County Behavioral Health Services overseeing the services for our most vulnerable families and youth in our local community. Dr. Teurman has responsibility for developing innovative programming for mental health service providers in the community who treat those families who have the most need for service. She has particular focus on those adults who are leaving high school and transitioning into adulthood or College for the first time with very little or no support from home struggling with mental health issues. Dr. Teurman has also maintained a private practice for the last seven years in addition to her work in public service.
Dr. Teurman is also a former Board Member of a local Alcohol and Drug Recovery transition/residential facility where she served as the Chief Financial Officer. She is a member of CAMFT, Sacramento Valley Psychological Association, Is an Executive Certified Coach, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners. Dr Teurman was a Conference creator, facilitator, and presenter at the Statewide School to World Conference in 2007 and 2009. She has also been asked to present at the Statewide California Education Transition Conference regarding transitioning troubled youth.
Haim Weinberg, Ph.D.
Haim Weinberg is a clinical psychologist, group analyst (Israel) and Certified Group Psychotherapist (USA), now living in the United States. For the past 30 years he has worked as a clinical psychologist, providing individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy, as well as supervising interns and junior psychologists. He is the president of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society (NCGPS), and the past-president of the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy. He is now teaching at Alliant International University in California, and the Wright institute in Berkeley. A faculty member of the group facilitators training program in Tel-Aviv University, ex-director of the group leaders training program in Bet Berl College. He is in private practice, and is a member of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP), of The American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and the Group Analytic Society (GAS).
Dr. Weinberg has conducted workshops, lectured and presented in many local (Israel and USA) and international conferences, participating and presenting in the AGPA annual meetings, and leading the Large Group there lately. He has co-chaired several Israeli conferences on group therapy and the Scientific Program Committee of the International Conference of Group Psychotherapy of the IAGP in Brazil, 2006. Haim Weinberg has published more than a dozen papers, co-edited a book about the Large Group and is moderating the group psychotherapy discussion list on the Internet.
Haim Weinberg completed his PhD studies at the Manchester Metropolitan University (England) specializing in the study of Groups, their Cultures, and the Internet Unconscious. His professional interests lie in the areas of group processes and group therapy, multicultural issues, conflict resolution, trauma groups, Large Groups and the Social Unconscious.
