Terese Gjernes (Psy.D., 2002 and M.A., ICP, 1988) is a Licensed Psychologist. She teaches and supervises in the 0-5 therapy program at A Better Way in Berkeley. She also supervises for Family Paths, Inc. in Oakland for their early childhood mental health program. She has a private practice in Berkeley, integrating somatic and Jungian-oriented therapy with adults. She is an adjunct faculty member at JFK University and will be teaching Movement Therapy in their Somatic Psychology program in Fall 2006 and Winter 2007.

John J. Prendergast, (ICP '80 and PSY '86) has been an adjunct faculty member in the ICP program at CIIS since 1990. He is the senior editor and contributor to an anthology of original essays entitled "The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy" (Paragon House, 2003) and the forthcoming "Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2" (Paragon House, 2007). More recently, he has been the principle organizer for and occasional presenter at the annual conference on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy and is in private practice in San Rafael. He is married and has a 15 year old son.

Rick Darby (MA, ICP '82) is a writer/editor for an international organization in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. He also writes a blog called Reflecting Light and credits his experiences at CIIS for greater empathy for those around him.

Barbara Turner (ICP '88, TLD '94) teaches Jungian sandplay therapy online and has edited and republished the three classic texts in sandplay -- Dora Kalff's Sandplay: A Psychotherapeutic Approach to the Psyche, Estelle Weinrib's Images of the Self, and H.G. Wells' Floor Games: A Father's Account of Play and It's Legacy and Healing. She is the author of The Handbook of Sandplay Therapy, from Temenos Press and is an artist at the Cloverdale Center for the Arts.

Stephanie Elliott (ICP '99) is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist currently in private practice in Pacifica, Ca. Her practice is integrated with Persimmon, a Holistic Healing Center. She works with adults, adolescents, and families in her private practice, and often weaves clinical hypnosis into her work.

Jeffrey Kishner (MA, ICP, '99) is a practicing astrologer, writer and psychotherapist in Brooklyn, NY. He has provided service to foster children and emotionally disturbed children as a social worker, and as a psychotherapist in community mental health. In 2006, he began writing, editing and publishing articles on astrology and other forms of divination. He has maintained popular astrology blogs 'Astrology at the Movies' and 'Lunar Tunes'.

José Martín, (MA, ’75), has been working for the Contra Costa County Health Services Department for the past twenty-seven years as a clinician and clinic director, and has been the Leader of the Reducing Health Disparities Initiative for CCHS for the past four years. In that role he is responsible for implementing a plan to reduce health disparities for CCHS which addresses issues such as cultural competence education, linguistic access, and managing a diverse workforce throughout the department. José serves on various academic institutions advisory boards, has taught philosophy courses at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, and at Berkeley City College and has co-led immersion trips to Mexico and Spain. José has a private practice where he continues to apply the lessons learned at CIIS from Integral Philosophy and Psychology as well as his practice of Vajrayana Buddhism in his work.

Lisa Miranda Donovan, (MA, ’05), is enjoying expanding her practice at the Health and Healing Center in San Francisco as a Guided Imagery Practitioner. She blends her background in Integral Counseling Psychology with her certification training in Integrative Medicine to address mind, body and spirit. She works with individuals and also teaches classes on Guided Imagery for Anxiety. Lisa work helps people discover how their intuition can aid in their healing.

Robert Mitchell, M.A., 1994, is a screenwriter living in southern California with his wife and two boys. He was greatly inspired by his education at CIIS, and though he has chosen not to practice psychotherapy, the things learned there have colored every day since graduation.

Robert O'Brien, M.A., 1990, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the clinical director of the Christian Counseling Center in San Francisco. In his private practice he works with adults suffering from a variety of addiction and relationship problems. Bob speaks on sex addiction and intimacy issues for San Francisco's First Offenders Prostitution Program for men.

Ron Pevny , M.A., 1978, recognized a calling to guide others in enacting wilderness rites of passage, and has been doing this work ever since. Concurrently, he has done extensive work as an adult education consultant and corporate creativity trainer. Helping to support the development of Elders and of soul-oriented organizational leaders through rites of passage, workshops, and writings is his passion these days, along with a life coaching practice focused on life transitions. Ron has been married for 27 years to Barbara Donica (CIIS class of 1980), lives in Durango, Colorado, and is the proud father of two college-age children.

Gloria Simoneaux, M.A., 1999, is the founder of DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children, which serves more than 1,600 children in five California counties. DrawBridge frequently exhibits the children's art, and has created The School Project, which educates teachers and school children about homeless families.

David Weinstein, (MA, ’91), has a psychotherapy practice in Oakland, where he is also the co-clinical director of the HAART Clinic, which specializes in helping people who are opiate dependent. He is the lead teacher of the Oakland Zendo of the Pacific Zen Institute, a community deeply committed to the integration of traditional Zen teachings with Western culture.

Kai-Lin Yang (BAC ’02, ICP '95) is living in Vancouver, Canada and has a private practice that integrates both inner and outer worlds. He attended the gathering of British Columbia CIIS alums held in August, 2006 and looks forward to expanding community.

Annie Deichmann, (ICP '92) is living in Sebastopol, California, with her husband, Will, and ten-year old daughter, Emma. Annie is a part-time somatic psychotherapist and has recently added supervision to her list of professional activities. Annie and Will co-facilitate a yearly wilderness quest down in the desert of Joshua Tree every spring and collaborate by teaching on-going Medicine Wheel Circles. Annie is in an ongoing Mother-Daughter Moon Circle with Emma and also facilitates other mothers and daughters in creating healing circles.

Mary Ellen Manthey –Halloran (ICP, 1999) has completed her new book: Anger: Let the Tiger Out, But Keep It On a Leash. She is grateful to her past teachers at CIIS, from whom she acquired knowledge and experience reflected in her new publication. Due in part to their devotion, her book was born.