Faculty Members in the ICP Program

Program Chair

Barbara Morrill, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who maintains a private practice in Palo Alto, CA. She received her MEd in Counseling Psychology from Boston College and her PhD from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, also in Palo Alto, where she is director of a public program series called Circles of Inquiry.

Her current qualitative research paper, "Being in the Face of Annihilation," presented at an ATP conference in India, is about two Dutch women during the Holocaust.

Core Faculty

Alzak Amlani, PhD, joined the ICP faculty in 2007. He has been a practicing psychologist since 1995. He began his education in psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was introduced to Gestalt, humanistic-existential perspectives, yoga and Buddhism.

He completed his doctorate in transpersonal psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in 1995, where his interests included diet and psychospiritual development, diversity, Jungian psychology, object relations, aikido, and ecopsychology.

In 2002, Alzak began practicing the Diamond Heart work with A.H. Almaas. Alzak has published a chapter on intuitive ways of knowing in Honoring Human Experience: Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences. He has also published on queer experiences in Trikone Magazine and Queer Dharma. His story “My Mentor; My Friend,” about his relationship with the Jungian analyst, Robert A. Johnson is published in White Crane Journal.

Philip Brooks, EdD, MFT, received his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1975. Philip’s areas of interest include psychosynthesis, T-groups, existential humanist psychology, and integrating diversity awareness. His work training clinicians is featured in the video series Psychotherapy Live, which he produced and directed.

Brendan Collins, PhD studied with Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri at the California Institute of Asian Studies in the original ICP Ph.D. program, and earned his doctorate in clinical psychology (1977), in Carl Rogers's program at United States International University. His areas of interest include Jungian psychology, contemporary psychoanalysis, integral psychology, and the relation between psychology and Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.

Brant Cortright, PhD, received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Union Institute in 1976. He is the author of two books, Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (SUNY Press) and Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart (SUNY Press), as well as numerous articles and professional presentations on transpersonal psychology, Hinduism, and psychology, and the dialogue between Eastern and Western psychology. He is a licensed psychologist and maintains a private practice in San Francisco.

Lucanna Grey, MA, MFT, received her master’s degree from the University of Santa Clara in 1981. She is in private practice and serves as the director of CIIS’s Church Street Integral Counseling Center. Lu, who is passionate about existential and Gestalt approaches to psychotherapy, was a trainer at the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco from 1984 to 1991.

Judye Hess, PhD, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1975. She is the coauthor of Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity (Idyll Arbor, 2008) and “Dual Dwelling Duos: An Alternative for Long-term Relationships,” Journal of Couples Therapy, Vol 10, Nos. 3/4, 2001.

Judye’s areas of expertise are family systems, Gestalt, experiential learning, and interpersonal dynamics. She has a private practice in Berkeley, CA, specializing in couples, families, and groups.

F. Antonio Ramírez Hernández, PsyD, received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology (2006), and a MA in Drama Therapy both from CIIS, as well as a MA in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His areas of interest include domestic violence, Drama Therapy, Shamanic practices with Native American and Latin American healers and how shamanic practices can be used in psychotherapy, cross-cultural counseling, research design, transpersonal psychotherapy, and clinical case seminars. He is the author of the book "Violencia Masculina en el Hogar" and the chapter "CECEVIM - Stopping Male Violence in the Latino Home" for the book Programs for Men Who Batter (Civic Research Institute, 2002).

Sergio Rodriguez-Castillo, JD, LLM, MA, has trained in Mexico, the United Kingdom, India and the U.S. He holds an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from CIIS. He has served as faculty at the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, the Contemporary Education University Center, and the Queretaro State University in Mexico. He has also worked as a therapist at the Instituto Familiar de la Raza and currently sees clients at the Integral Counseling Center on Church Street in San Francisco.

Before joining CIIS, Sergio practiced law, marketing and public relations; bringing more than 20 years of experience in the public, non-for profit and corporate sectors. He is also the author of the Survival guide to Psychotherapy and Jesus in the Times of Freud, a book on psychotherapy and Catholicism, soon to be published in Mexico.

Sergio’s fields of interest include the interface between Christianity and psychotherapy, the application of entheogens to therapeutic work, the contribution of Native Mexican and American cultures to modern psychology; and the exploration of ways to reduce the gap among spirituality and the corporate world in our time. He welcomes contact from people interested in these fields to further promote their study and development.

Adjunct Faculty

David Akullian, MS, MFT
Robert Bartner
Michael Baugh, LCSW
Doris Bersing, PhD
Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT
Toni Brooks, MFT
Kathleen Brown, PhD

Fernando Castrillo, PsyD
Linda Cunningham, PhD, MFT
Mildred Dubitzky, PhD
Paul Ehrlich, MA
Rob Fisher, MFT
Mark Fromm, PhD
Wendy Heffner, MS
Michael Klein, PhD
Alan Kubler, PhD

Gieve Patel, MA, MFT
John J. Prendergast, PhD
Fred Rozendal, PhD
Laura Shekerjian, MA, MFT
Bahman A. K. Shirazi, PhD

Margaret Skinner, MA, MFT