I’ve had what I consider an interesting journey as a psychologist. Growing up, I never thought much about change. I believed that everything was the way it used to be and would always be the way it used to be. Whatever that was. Then the 60’s and 70’s came, and the beginnings of the idea that we can be a part of actively responding to change, and being instruments of change, and a bigger experience of life, as we begin to know our Self.

Prior to this move, I was in private practice in California, having created The Center for Conscious Living in 1985 in Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley, which really became my teacher for almost 30 years. I’d received my PhD in 1971 from The University of Maryland and was prepared to be a traditional psychologist or university professor/administrator. After moving  to California, I did research for 3 years with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department studying job stress, then became a psychologist in the University Counseling Center, participated in faculty development, and was an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach.