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[back to top]Alumni Class NotesUpdated March 28, 2007If you would like to submit news of your world, please contact Francine Roberts at the Office of Advancement at 818.654.1753.Sanie Andres (2006 MFT/AT) is an adjunct faculty in the MFT/Art Therapy Program, a PGI Admissions Counselor and serves on the Board of Directors for the Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association of Southern California (LAGPA).
Terre Bridgham (2006 MFT) works at Family Service Agency of Burbank, is assistant coordinator of the agency's school-based program and facilitates an art therapy group at Wonderland Treatment Center, a residential treatment facility for addictions.
Jessica Carey (2006 MFT) works at Pacific Lodge Youth Services as an intake therapist.
Kendra Davis (1999 MFT) recently published a therapeutic game, Heartbeats, to encourage adolescents to discuss their feelings. Heartbeats is offered through Western Psychological Services.
Douglas Green (2005 MFT) works as a full-time intern at San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center in the Transitional Youth Outpatient program; is a part-time intern with Neighborhood Counseling Center, a block from PGI and studies Drama Therapy.
Sarajane Hall (Smiley) (2001 MFT) graduated from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2005 (M.A., Depth Psychology) and is currently working on a doctorate in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Maureen Kaye (2004 MFT) completed internship(s) at the Free Clinic of Simi Valley;currently finishing internship at Jewish Family Service, Ventura, in a school-based program for special needs children; is working on RPT (Registered Play Therapist) certification and has offered sand tray presentations to undergraduate psychology classes at CLU (California Lutheran University) in Thousand Oaks.
Rick Lombardo (2006 MFT) is working as an MFT intern at Almansor Clinical Services in South Pasadena in the School Outreach Program.
Ani Manukyan (2006 MFT) works as an MFT intern at Pacific Clinics in school-based services.
Brian Mayeda (2005 CPDP) is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center in Los Angeles specializing in psychodiagnostic assessments of children and adolescents and is an adjunct faculty member in both the PGI Clinical Psychology Doctoral and MFT Programs.
Carol Metcalf (1998 MFT) is Therapeutic Services Supervisor for Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County, a non-profit group; supervisor for Therapeutic Response Aide, which helps paraprofessionals take diagnosed clients aged 6-18 out into the community and supervises Antioch MFT interns.
Michael S. Moore (2004 MFT) intern at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc., at their Cornerstone location in Van Nuys, a dual diagnosis outpatient treatment facility that works with the homeless.
Chrystal Parisi (Maher) (2002 MFT) graduated with a Psy.D. from Ryokan College in 2005; currently the Clinical Director at Focus, working with children diagnosed with autism and recently completed coursework to become a board certified Behavior Analyst.
Samatra Phillips (2005 MFT) Clinical Director and part owner of Making A Way Treatment and Housing, a residential treatment center and housing program for substance abusers and individuals with dual disorders.
Limor Salem (2006 MFT) works at Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services in a residential setting doing group and individual work with delinquent adolescents and their families.
Nina Savelle-Rocklin (2002 MFT) is licensed with a private practice in Sherman Oaks; part-time staff therapist at an intensive outpatient program for eating disorders and Co-President of the AEL Honors Society.
Carrie L. Savlov (2001 MFT) recently passed licensing exams and plans to do family therapy with the families, siblings and caretakers of autistic children.
Bahareh Shakiba-Nejad (2006 SC/PPS) is a Guidance Counselor at Las Virgenes Unified School District and A.C. Stelle Middle School.
Andrea Dymally Shirley (2000 MFT/PPS) is in private practice in Los Angeles at the Art Clinic... in the Counseling Room, a BBS- and BRN-approved provider of CEUs.
Elda Soderquist, (1976 MFT) recently published Equality! Secret of Lasting Love through Sunlit Press with her husband, Ronald Soderquist, Ph.D., a former PGI MFT faculty member.
John Sovec (2006 MFT) in private practice focusing on adolescents, individuals, Loss and Grief, as well as Recovery; holds regular groups at Alternatives, a dual diagnosis recovery center; educator on HIV/AIDS; Clinical Consultant for the Life Group, Los Angeles and a regular contributor to the Yogi Times magazine and FindBliss.com.
Angeliina Tautz (2006 MFT/AT) in private practice in Ventura; works full time at a hospital specializing in eating disorders; doctoral program in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (SBGI); elected Student Representative and working on her dissertation.
Cynthia Tyler (1998 MFT) published Shadow Work in 2006, a sequel to her earlier work, Descanso. Shadow Work is available through Alice Street Editions, a division of Harrington Park Press.
Okalani Ulloa (2006 SC) currently working with 7th graders as a School Counselor at the Mountain View School District in El Monte.
Julie Wooton (1992 CalFam) working on her teaching credential at Chapman University; substitute teaches in Alta Loma and Etiwanda School Districts.
Julie Zimmerman (1992 MFT) running the children's program as a child and family therapist at Human Options, a long-term residential facility and domestic violence shelter. [back to top][back to Alumni Home page] Contact the Phillips Alumni Office at 818.654.1782 or alumniassociate@pgi.edu