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Experience:
1981 - to date | Clinician in private practice in Felton, CA providing individual, couples, group and family therapy. |
1983 - to date | Group Therapy. Couples, Relationship, Codependency recovery, work addition, and compulsive overeating. |
1995 - to date | Enneagram training. Dr. Franklin utilizes the Enneagram in Individual, Couples and Group therapies and teaches the Enneagram in these settings as well as in seminars. |
2009 - to date | Collaboration Arbitration Mediation Professionals (CAMP). Psychologist coach, case coordinator, and parenting coach. |
2006 - to date | Mediation Coach. Served as Psychologist Mediator in numerous cases, reducing conflict and maintaining focus upon the common good and an approach to the marriage dissolution that is fair to both parties. |
2004 - 2009 | Collaborative Practice of Santa Cruz. Psychologist Coach and Case Coordinator |
1981 | Center for Early Education: Taught courses in counseling to psychology teacher faculty. |
1980 | Associate Professor at UCLA. Taught courses in Object Relations, Working with Exceptional Children, Abnormal Psychology, Social Psychology and Psychology 101. Pepperdine University. Taught courses in Working with the Special Needs Families and Developmental Psychology. UCLA Wellness Center: provided individual and group therapy for compulsive over eaters. Treatment modalities included Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, exercise and nutrition education. |
1978 - 1979 | Los Angeles Children’s Hospital: Post-Doctoral Fellowship as a clinician in the Psycho-Social department. Job responsibilities included individual therapy, hypno-therapy, and family therapy with children diagnosed with cancer. |
1974 - 1978 | Camp Vernon Kilpatrick Juvenile Probation Center: Ran a treatment program for incarcerated adolescents. Job responsibilities included Educational and Psychometric testing, design of appropriate educational programs, group therapy and individual therapy with residents. |
1973 - 1974 | Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) at UCLA: Practiced individual and group psychotherapy utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Psychodynamic and Gestalt techniques. |
Certifications and Training:
Relationship Empowerment Dr. Terry Real, 2009 — 2010
Internal Family Systems Richard Schwartz’ Center for Self Leadership. 2008 — 2010
Enneagram Training Helen Palmer, Dave Daniels, Don Riso, Russ Hudson , Thomas Gordon, and Rhor, 1995 — 2008
Mediation Training Intensive Mediation Training Program, 2004
Co-parenting and Child Coordination Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2009
Collaborative Divorce Training Collaborative Practice in Divorce, 2005; Skills for Effective Communication and Collaboration, 2007
Gottman Method Marital Trainer Gottman Institute in Seattle, WA, 2000, 2002
Identity Trance Dismantling Stephen Wolinsky’s Quantum Psychology Training, 1996 -2001; Certification, 2001
Certified Co-dependency Therapist Pia Melody, 1992
Codependency Training Intensives Pia Melody, 1992 — 1998
Codependency Training Pia Melody, 1992 — 1993
EMDR Levels I, II and III Certification EMDR Institute in Pacific Grove, CA; Level I & II, 1995; Level III, 1996
Imago Relationship Trainer Certification Institute for Relationship Therapy, 1992
Type A Work Addiction Group Therapy Meyer Friedman, 1984 — 1989
Moral Development Training Harvard University Psychology Department; participated in cognitive Behavioral Therapy groups and developed curriculum
Education:
Ph.D. UCLA, 1979
M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1973
B.S. University of Texas at Austin, 1972
Dr. Franklin has participated in hundreds of hours of continuing education in recent years covering a wide range of topics including: substance abuse, end of life issues, eating disorders, family therapy, divorce mediation, co-parenting, collaborative divorce and other topics.