Don Eulert, Ph.D., Professor of Integrative Psychology (1976-Present), California (Graduate) School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University, San Diego, is the visionary leader and Director of the Center for Integrative Psychology. He is a Full Professor in the Clinical Psy.D. program at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), San Diego, housed at Alliant International University, where he has also been the director of Humanistic Studies for 26 years. His research interests include C.G. Jung’s theories, postmodern cultural and spirituality issues, moral development, and creativity.

Professor Eulert received his M.A. in Creative Writing from Fort Hays Kansas State and his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico in 1968. He pursued post-graduate work at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and was a Senior Fulbright Fellow and State Department lecturer on U.S. culture.

Dr. Eulert urges candidates to fit psychology to the history of ideas, to contemporary cultural constructs, and to global and ethical concerns. He presently coordinates the Center for Integrative Psychology at CSPP at Alliant International University.

You can contact Professor Eulert directly at: farmprof@pacbell.net

Marina Dorian, Ph.D.

Marina Dorian wa s born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1975. She immigrated to the United Stated with her family in 1978, living first in Chicago, then Los Angeles. Marina graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, Cum Laude in 1997 with a degree in psychology and Russian language and literature. She later relocated to Champaign, Illinois to pursue graduate study in Clinical and Community Psychology. In 2001 she was awarded a Fulbright research grant to Ukraine. Marina completed an APA academy clinical internship at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 2007. Following completion of her Ph.D., she began a faculty position at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego, California. Her professional interests include couple and family therapy, family stress and resilience, integrative psychology, mindfulness and acceptance, international psychology, treatment of anxiety and mood disorders as well as personality disorders. In her free time Marina enjoys hiking, running, yoga, and independent films. mdorian@alliant.edu

Adjunct Faculty

David H. Peterzell, Ph.D., Ph.D.

David H. Peterzell, Ph.D., Ph.D. Professor Peterzell’s background is in two broad areas of psychology, including visual-cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. He has published approximately thirty papers on the first topic, and a few on the second. Much of his published work since the mid 1980s has examined the perceptual and neural worlds of human infants, including form perception, color vision, hemispheric asymmetry, and more. He is the 1991 recipient of the Garland Clay Award, presented by the American Academy of Optometry to the authors who published the “most significant paper on clinical optometry” during the previous year.

Currently, Dr Peterzell is a lecturer, researcher, clinician and/or consultant at various universities in San Diego, including UCSD, SDSU, and CSPP/Alliant International University. He is currently studying phantom limb pain sensations, including visual and cognitive-behavioral therapies, at UCSD and San Diego’s VA hospital. He is interested in any kind of individual differences, especially if they reveal the structure of psychological processes. He is a longstanding member of CIP. He has practiced meditation and yoga since 1995.

Marcy Witkin-Lupo, Psy.D.

Marcy Witkin-Lupo, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of California. She brings with her more than twenty years experience in the fields of education and psychotherapy. Her classes and workshops are a blend of the presentation of information and a variety of experiential activities that are designed to enhance the learning experience. Students are challenged to acquire both academic knowledge and a deeper understanding of themselves. Dr. Witkin-Lupo is also a successful lecturer in a variety of community and professional settings and is the author of The Embrace of Sprit: A Woman’s Guide to Mind/Body Healing.

Steven D. Hickman, Psy.D.

Steven D. Hickman, Psy.D., is Director and founder of the Center for Mindfulness at the University of California, San Diego. The program teaches mindfulness-based interventions to clients and trains medical and mental health professionals in research and community outreach. Dr. Hickman has worked with the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness and with Jon Kabat-Zinn, taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for five years, and has extensive training in other mindfulness-based interventions. He has presented at national conferences on various aspects of Mindfulness. He also teaches graduate courses on Mindfulness in Psychotherapy and mentors research at the California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego.

Judith Greer Essex, MFT, ADTR, REAT

Trained as a dancer, Judith Greer Essex is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and a member of the Academy of Registered Dance Therapists. She is a pioneer in the San Diego art-based therapy movement, respected as an expert in the role of the body and expression in psychological integration, and is founder/director of The Expressive Arts Institute, San Diego. Judith has created dance therapy and expressive arts therapy programs for many clinics, hospitals, and health care venues in the San Diego area. She has taught movement, dance and psychology at SDSU, UIS, UCSD and Alliant University, and movement for actors at the San Diego Repertory Theater Conservatory. She also served as a Master Trainer at the European Graduate School for Expressive Arts Therapy in Saas Fe, Switzerland. Judith earned her BFA in Dance and Theater from BYU, MA in dance movement from UCLA, and her MFT through National University. In 1999 she completed her Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study at the European Graduate School, and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of IEATA and has presented her work at numerous professional conferences.

Leslie Ziegenhorn, Ph.D.

Wes Chester, MA, CAGS

Wes Chester, MA, CAGS, Expressive Arts Therapist, is an outdoorsman and artist, bird watcher and musician, naturalist and poet. In his master’s thesis, developing the field of Eco-Aesthetics, Wes began anew, asking the basic question: What is helpful is about the ongoing aesthetic encounter with the natural world? When not teaching, he works in milieu therapy with the severely mentally ill, who are his greatest teachers. In private practice, he specializes in helping therapists and clients rediscover their aesthetic relationship to the natural world as a resource for growth, inspiration and change. Wes is the co-director of the Expressive Arts Institute, a teacher in the Socratic method, who focuses on immersive, experiential, and peer supported learning in an environment of scholarly inquiry.