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Lauren Costine, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, educator, feminist, and activist with offices in both Santa Monica and West Hollywood. She received her MA in Psychology at Antioch University Los Angeles in 2001 and her PhD in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2007; her dissertation focused on the role of the repression of the sacred feminine in the heteronormative society and how it affects female sexuality as it relates to the creation of consciousness. Her focus is on addiction and codependence issues, co-occurring disorders, depth psychology, LGBT-affirmative psychotherapy, and psychodynamic and family systems modalities with individuals and couples. For many years she was the Family Counselor at Exodus Recovery Center actively involved in helping the patient’s families find direction and solutions, educating patients on the realities of substance abuse and how to develop new coping skills, plus treatment planning and implementation for co-occurring disorders and chronic substance abuse problems. She facilitated many groups such as Stress Management, Psychological Process, Trauma and How it Relates to Addiction, Family and Codependence issues, and the weekend Family Process Groups. She lectured on Narcissism and Borderline Personality disorders in the Addictive World at Exodus’ CME forums.

She has also played a pivotal role in the development and management of the LGBT Specialization in Clinical Psychology, the first such program of its kind in the country, as an Associate Faculty member and instructor in the Masters in Psychology program. Besides guiding the development and implementation of the ground-breaking affirmative curriculum as an associate and member of the “LGBT Specialization Founders,” she has helped to produce a variety of grassroots psychological cultural events aimed to promulgate LGBT affirmative psychological ideas for the community in an accessible way through performances at Highways, the creation of the “Clothesline Project” and the conception of events at Antioch itself, such as A Different Light Bookstore’s book readings, the Trans Teach In, and the Sapphic Salon. She has taught such courses as; Process I: Beginning Therapeutic Techniques, Society and the Individual, LGBT Community Action and Independent Studies; Intimate Partner Abuse, Domestic Violence, and LGBTQ Oppression and Empowerment; Bisexuality: A Sexual Orientation, LGBT History and Myth, Lesbian Liberation: Finding it through Identity, Love, and Sexuality. She has also presented at the APA Convention in the LGBT division (44), LAGPA (Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association) in 2007, The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s Women’s Health Conference, “Mind, Body and Soul,” in 2008 and 2009 and will be presenting, her theoretical concept, The Sapphic Complex, at APA’s 2010 Conference this August in San Diego.

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I am a gay refugee from Athens, Greece and have made Los Angeles my home since 1973. I hold a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Zurich, Switzerland and a MA in Counseling Psychology from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. I am a licensed MFT since 1987.

1979 – 1985: I volunteered at the Gay and Lesbian Center as MFT Intern, Rap Group Facilitator, and facilitator of sensitivity training workshops on LGBT issues. 1981 – 1986: I worked full time in acute psychiatric crisis stabilization.

1997 – 1996: I worked as a full time therapist at AIDS Project Los Angeles, where I also developed, supervised and coordinated the first HIV/AIDS clinical training program for MFT, MSW and PsyD trainees and interns.

Since 1997, I am Core Faculty and Coordinator of Clinical Training in the MFT Department of Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena.

I would be honored to serve on the Board of LAGPA.

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Lisa is a licensed marriage and family therapist-since 1995. Lisa is an alumni of U.C.I. School of Social Ecology and Fuller Seminary: School of Marriage and Family Therapy. She is in private practice in Newport Beach.

Lisa works primarily with lesbian women and gender questioning clients of all ages, as well as their families. Lisa provides individual and family therapy as well as a group for lesbian women. Lisa's passion is providing a kind of bridge between the GLBT community and the medical and psychological professionals with particular expertise and knowledge of GLBT -positive approaches, as well as increasing visibility of the needs of GLBT clients among non-GLBT caregivers through education, training and consultation that she provides. To this end, Lisa has developed two professional websites and professional newsletters designed to address the concerns of lesbian community and the gender variant community.

Lisa has developed a training curriculum for volunteers with the Community Service Project: Victims of Sexual Assault Unit. She provides cultural competency training to volunteers (mostly psychology students) specific to the needs of GLBT survivors. Lisa is also a guest lecture in the Orange Coast College Psychology and Abnormal Psychology and Human Sexuality Classes addressing the topics of Therapy with GLBT clients. As part of her commitment to education, she enjoys teaching these classes as they provide an opportunity to share important information and knowledge with the larger community in order to reduce bias and build bridges.

Lisa is a member of CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists) as well as W-PATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health). Lisa's interest in serving LAGPA is in the development of more professional training for cultural competency for therapists in the area of GLBT mental health; as well as increasing awareness of LAGPA's existence among professional therapists and psychologists through a more comprehensive marketing strategy that can benefit the organization and its members.

Lisa is also very interested in the discussion of working with Antioch on furthering the development of specialization in LGBT issues for other schools of Psychology.

On a personal note, Lisa lives with her two daughters and two dogs in Orange County-but she very much enjoys getting out of OC!

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist currently in private practice. Prior to this, she provided volunteer therapy at the Pacific Center of AIDS Project Los Angeles and retired as a counselor after 28 years being employed in Beverly Hills Unified School District.

Liliane is currently completing her dissertation, “A Phenomenological Study of Self-Identified Heterosexual Men who are Now Living in an Openly Gay Relationship.”

Liliane has been on the LAGPA board for two years and is currently Co-President.

Travis Stobbe is a native of the San Fernando Valley and graduate of California Institute of the Arts (1999). His current career is real estate management. His real love is motion picture art. He has been involved with PFLAG, Toast Masters International, and various classic car clubs. Travis is a big supporter of LAGPA because of the important work the members perform for the LGBT community.

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Was born and raised in central Los Angeles. He was reared a Roman Catholic, with 16 years of Catholic education - eight of which were by Jesuit priests at Loyola High and Loyola University, Los Angeles.

He received his B.A. degree in his major, psychology, with three full minors in theology, philosophy, and foreign languages. He was a Public Health Service Fellow at the University of Oregon, where he received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in June, 1972. He was a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow both at his predoctoral internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and at his postdoctoral internship at Thalians, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

He has been: an Assistant Professor at UCLA, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; a clinical instructor at the California School of Professional Psychology, LA and Ryokan College, LA; and a clinical supervisor at the Center for Legal Psychiatry, Santa Monica.

He established his private practice in Westwood in 1972, where he sees mostly high functioning adults with relationship problems. Psychotherapists apprentice to him and his three partners to learn his unique method of psychotherapy, which he calls, Person-Centered Psychoanalysis.

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A licensed clinical psychologist. He has a solo private practice doing cognitive behavioral psychotherapy in West Hollywood.

Fred has been counseling as a licensed practitioner for over thirty years and has been on the LAGPA board for two years and is currently the Secretary/Treasurer.

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A leading Gender Diversity Clinician and Applied Community Psychology Specialist, Alexander educates mental health and medical providers, businesses, institutions, community organizations, government bodies, and educational systems on gender issues and administrative practice.

As a Community Psychology Specialist, he focuses on person-environment interactions and the ways larger, societal, and systemic factors impact upon individual and community health and wellness.

A nationally recognized author and educator in print and on radio, film, and television and recipient of numerous awards and honors, he provides sensitivity, cultural competency, and EEO Compliance training as a private organizational development consultant and offers diverse peer consultation and psychotherapeutic services.

He also serves as the Vice President of FTM International, the largest and longest running (22 years) FTM trans organization in the world, active in all 50 states, all Canadian provinces, and 18 countries. He also serves as its newsletter editor-in-chief. Alexander also founded GenderQueer Revolution, a unique organization serving the needs of and celebrating genderqueer, gendergifted, gender non-conforming individuals and communities worldwide.

He also serves on LAGPA board and recently took on newsletter editing duties. He also serves on the Community Advisory Board of The Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention.

An ordained minister, he considers the work with the various communities in which he lives, LGBTIQ, people of color, people of faith, eclectically spiritual, those working through the difficult questions of grief, loss, faith, spiritual community, spiritual identity, philosophy, sexuality, and gender, all part of his spiritual calling and ministry. He sees psychotherapy clients as an intern out of private practice, and he also works in hospice as a chaplain and specializes in grief, loss, aging, our changing bodies, and death.

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Ph.D. in Education (1995)
University of Southern California
Specializing in Intercultural Education with an Administration Supplemental and an outside field with graduate certificate in The Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society.
Hal Call Mattachine Scholar Award 1995
USC Robert Irving Fatt Memorial Scholarship 1992-93

Masters in Education Administration (1991)
University of Southern California

Single-Subject Secondary Cleared Credential (1989)
California State University Chico

California Adult School Teaching Credential (1978)
University of California Los Angeles

B.S. Physics and Physical Science (1973)
California State University Northridge
(dual major - math minor). Graduate work in Secondary Education and toward a Master's Degree in Thermodynamics - Combustion Engineering

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