The therapists at the Institute for Personal Change are highly qualified and include licensed marriage and family therapists with extensive training in relationship and family of origin issues. In addition to the Process, the therapists provide individual, couple and group counseling. All the faculty members are themselves Process graduates.
MFC 35733
San Francisco, Palo Alto
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PSY 35077
Fremont
Swap Mushiana, MS, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist with background training in health psychology and program implementation to improve healthcare access for underserved communities. He has provided care to children and families in hospital settings, and adults and couples at the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. Swap is a Bay Area native, soccer player/coach, and avid hiker.
Davis, CA
Ron is a co-founder of the Process for Personal Change. He co-authored the book Where Freedom Begins, which describes this intensive family-of-origin therapy he delivers with a team of therapists in a structured 2-month intensive psychotherapy program. He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University.
Ron’s early training was in group encounters. He trained in Client-Centered therapy and small group processing with Dr. Carl Rogers. He also trained and worked for 20 years as a colleague with Dr. Will Schutz, another encounter group pioneer and developer of Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Theory and The Human Element Program for Organizations.
Ron worked with Ralph Metzner, a psychologist who collaborated with Timothy Leary and Ram Dass at Harvard University, to explore the therapeutic potential of various psychedelics. He was introduced to mindfulness and meditation practice by Allan Watts and continues a variety of integral practices.
Ron co-authored the best-selling book Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relations. He presents Radical Collaboration Training and certifications around the world.
Ron has developed and delivered social and emotional intelligence programs for leaders and teams for many Fortune 500 companies, including Boeing, Proctor and Gamble, Seagram, and non-profits, including NASA, the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and the Stockholm School of Economics. He was a senior consultant with Business Consultants of Japan and developed their Executive Social Intelligence year-long program for Japanese corporate executives and CEOs.
Ron is also available to business and corporations for on-site sessions in organizational consulting, team building and stress management.
The Process is about cleaning dirty windows (00:41):
Survival as children (01:31):
MFT 46059
Los Angeles Area and Palo Alto
Areas of specialization: Developmental Trauma Recovery, Shame Reduction, Mood Disorders (depression and anxiety), Cross-cultural issues, and grief and loss. Malcolm’s specialized training in Shame Reduction methodology came from working at the John Bradshaw In-patient Center for Codependency. Further training is in Neuropsychotherapy, personality disorders (a la James F. Masterson, M.D.), Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Davanloo therapy), attachment theory, affect (emotion) theory, Gestalt therapy, and Psychodrama. He also provides Psycho-Spiritual Life Coaching.
Malcolm has studied the works of Frantz Fanon as they apply to recovering from Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome and other shame-based issues. Malcolm has the depth of life experience that has benefitted many clients via in-patient locked psychiatric hospital settings, residential treatment, county mental health, and out-patient private practice.
He practices Zen meditation, Christian Contemplative prayer (a la Joel S.Goldsmith, a contemporary Christian mystic), and Taoist yoga. He was a competitive collegiate gymnast, gymnastics coach, personal athletic trainer, and currently trains in Japanese Shotokan Karatedo.
Malcolm’s Online Community: GuideLight Services: A Community of Spiritual Seekers and Anyone Stuck in A Spiritual By-Pass
Foster City
Kathy became a Marriage and Family therapist in 1972. She took the Process in 1977, and went straight into training as a Process therapist with the Process staff. When the Institute for Personal Change was incorporated as a non-profit (1984), Kathy was one of the cofounders.
AMFT Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, Registration No. AMFT 139157 Supervised by Malcom Stanislaus, LMFT 46059
On line: California. In person: San Francisco Bay Area
Gabrielle Banta is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist offering individual therapy sessions. Her master’s degree is from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her rich background includes training as a Process therapist, a child therapist, and a spiritual growth teacher at the Foundation for Spiritual Development (FSD). With over 13 years of experience as a spiritual growth practitioner and childcare worker, Gabrielle has a unique and supportive foundation for therapy work with children, adults, and family clients.
Therapy can be an incredible resource for growth, teaching emotional awareness and learning to see relational healing, and self-empowerment, as powerful next steps. With this understanding, Gabrielle offers a safe and compassionate space for people to uncover and release stuck patterns of emotion, increase self-awareness, and connect to their-authentic self. She practices a client-centered approach where clients can openly share, name their goals, and uncover their own healing and strengths. She has worked with clients who have had difficulty with their emotions, self-esteem, coping skills, behaviors, anxiety, relationships, body image, suicidal ideation, childhood trauma, family dynamics, and more.
Gabrielle believes that each client is unique and tailors the therapy sessions to support you in your personal growth journey. She practices an integrative approach, applying interventions from various modalities and working with the mind-body-spirit connection. As a Process-trained therapist, Gabrielle helps you recognize unconscious patterns formed in childhood, release limiting beliefs, and begin embodying your True Self.
Gabrielle believes that people have an incredible ability to transform. She feels honored to support people in their growth and transformation. Please reach out for a free consultation to see if this work is a match for you.
Psychological Associate 94029073
On line: California. In person: San Francisco Bay Area
Oteja Lightheart offers an accompanying presence for those on paths of discovery. She embraces the darkest and brightest parts of being human, inviting an experience of wholeness and truth. Oteja views life as an abundance of possibilities for learning, renewal, and creation. She appreciates the beauty of each individual’s unique unfolding process. Oteja is deeply inspired by the world of nature, and by those she has the privilege of learning from and walking with, in a spirit of healing and growth.
LMFT 164458
San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley
Elizabeth’s counseling approach is grounded in a deep respect for resilience, and the courage forged by life experience. Elizabeth has a background in mindfulness, holistic health education, bodywork, creative arts, and counseling children and families in underserved communities. Drawing from Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing (MI), Elizabeth supports clients to deepen their awareness of thoughts, emotions, and body sensations while building on inherent strengths and capacity for growth.
elizabeth.moorhatch.therapy@gmail.com
AMFT #158552, Supervised by Rachael Vaughn and Rayne Banneck
In person: San Francisco. Online: California
Have you ever felt invisible or unheard by the world around you? I believe therapy is a place to let ourselves be seen, heard and most importantly understood in all of our glory, agony and authenticity. As the granddaughter of genocide survivors (Assyrian Seyfo), my practice is grounded in honoring our ancestors and healing the parts they never had the opportunity to. Being the cycle breaker is not an easy role to be donned, however on the other side of fear is freedom waiting to be discovered. Our work together is led by your personal wisdom and is met with my empathetic curiosity and compassionate directness. All parts are welcome, especially the ones we have been taught to cast away in disdain. To be your witness in this work is truly an honor.
Orientation: Relational psychodynamic, somatically grounded parts work, liberation and trauma oriented therapy
Style: Deeply relational, curious, warm and compassionately direct.
California License PSY 17321
Redwood City, CA
Julie has both gone through the Process herself (life-changing work!), and taken clients through the Process (very meaningful and rewarding). She believes in the power of the Process, which combines group, individual, writing and visualization modalities to help people make profound changes in their lives through better understanding and being able to de-program what they learned about themselves while growing up. Julie is a clinical psychologist, dedicated to helping people expand their ability to accept and love themselves, and to create more meaningful, joyful and connected lives. She completed a doctoral degree from SUNY Stony Brook, an internship through the Palo Alto VA, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at Stanford. She has been in private practice for 20 years.
Cris Jenkins,
MS, MFT
1946 – 2025
Dorothea Hamilton,
MA, MFT
Co-Founder of IPC
1929 – 2018
Marion Pastor, Ph.D.
Co-Founder of IPC
1921 – 2013
Dorothea speaks about the Process work (02:26):
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