
Michelle Franklin Ph.D.
Credentials
Experience:
Clinician in private practice in Felton, CA providing individual, couples and family therapy.
Couples & relationship counseling, substance abuse, codependency, work addition, and compulsive overeating.
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.
Collaboration and divorce mediation. Santa Cruz Divorce Solutions Psychologist coach, case coordinator for couples divorcing and co-parenting reducing conflict and maintaining focus upon the common good and an approach to the marriage dissolution that is fair and equitable to both parties.
Collaborative Practice of Santa Cruz. Psychologist Coach and Case Coordinator
Center for Early Education: Taught courses in counseling to psychology teacher faculty.
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.
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.
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.
Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) at UCLA: Practiced individual and group psychotherapy utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Psychodynamic and Gestalt techniques.
Certifications and Training
Dr. Terry Real, 2009 — 2010
Internal Family Systems Certification
Richard Schwartz’ Center for Self Leadership certification 2008 — 2010
Cici Sykes Intensive IFS couples certification 2012
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 Certification
Gottman Institute in Seattle, WA 2000, 2002
Identity Trance Dismantling Certification
Stephen Wolinsky’s Quantum Psychology Training, 1996 -2001; Certification, 2001
Certified Co-dependency Therapist
Pia Melody, 1992
Codependency Training Intensives
Pia Melody, 1992 — 1998
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:
Dr. Franklin has participated in over a thousand hours of continuing education 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.