Psychology

Dr. Charles R. Billings,
Professor, Psychology
Chair, Department of Counseling Psychology
cbillings@dominican.edu
415-485-3263

• Brief and long-term, client-centered, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral and transpersonal psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, seniors, couples, and families

• Psychological assessment

• Mediation

• Clinical training and supervision
  
• Test construction
• Psychological and business consultation
  
• Commissioner on Examinations for Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, and Marriage and Family Therapist Licensing

Dr. Matthew Davis
Professor, Psychology
Department of Psychology
415-257-0198
davis@dominican.edu

• Human Response to Natural disasters: Tsunami, Earthquakes, Volcanoes
  

• Public Perceptions of Risk
• Social Psychology
• Media Psychology
  

Dr. Davis earned his doctoral degree in the interdisciplinary field of social ecology with a focus on both social psychology and on the geological processes that create earthquakes and volcanoes. His dissertation focused on how residents of southern California perceive the threat posed by earthquake hazards.

Other research projects include the study of hazard awareness for tsunami risks in Northern California, risk perception for volcanic hazards at Mt. Etna and Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, and the study of volcanic hazards at Mt. Rainier in Washington. Dr. Davis teaches a seminar titled "Human Response to Natural Disasters."

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• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

• Primary and middle school lecturer on parenting Issues. 

• Leader of three psychotherapy groups: Mothers of Daughters Group, Eating Psychology, and Women's Transitions.

Dr. Gayle's areas of specialization include: brief and long-term psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and families; crisis intervention; cross-cultural counseling; group psychotherapy; group process consultation; self-esteem in girls; pre-adolescent social issues; religious crisis; women’s issues; and Gestalt therapy.

Dr. Joanie Gillispie,
Adjunct Instructor, Psychology
415-380-9985
joanie.gilllispie@dominican.edu

• Psychology and the Internet
  

• Cyber relationships
  

• Cyber Culture
  

Dr. Gillispie is co-author of "Cyber Rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet" (WW Norton, 2006). This guide for clinicians, educators, and parents is comprehensive look at the social, psychological, and global impact of the Internet and its associated technology and media. Dr. Gillispie, who teaches Lifespan Development at Dominican, is president of the Marin County Psychological Association. She also has written a chapter in the second edition of "Psychology and the Internet" (Academic Press). The chapter is titled “Cyber Shrinks: Expanding the Paradigm."

• Infant and child temperament

• Infant, child and adolescent development

Jan Kristal specializes in child and adolescent development, as well as temperament and child behavior. She is a temperament counselor in private practice in San Rafael. She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and the author of "The Temperament Perspective: Working with Children's Behavioral Styles" (2005, Brookes Publishing Co.).

Dr. LeeAnn Bartolini
Co-Chair, Department of Psychology
415-257-1357
bartolini@dominican.edu

• Abnormal psychology

• Child and adolescent development

• Psychology of dreams

• Death and dying

• Mental illness

• Women's issues

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