About

I trained in Boston. Boston College was my graduate school, Beth Israel Hospital the site of my clinical education, and MIT, where I was a Senior Research Associate, the start of my professional career. In 1976, I emerged a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts and began a practice treating young people, couples and families. I also worked as a community therapist with teachers, parents and students, to help integrate three Boston’s public schools.

Later, in California I completed additional training and was licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I acquired experience in different approaches to treatment including, Cognitive Behaviorism, Family Systems, Narrative, Object Relations, Solution Focused, and Strategic therapy. I have extensive experience working with artists, trauma victims and addicts.

This was not my first career. I worked as an editor, a foreign correspondent, and a documentary filmmaker. The skills I developed became invaluable to me as a therapist. I learned to listen–for what is said but also for what is left unsaid–and to recognize the impact that social structures have on our life stories.

Today, in addition to my private practice, I train and supervise interns at a prominent community mental health clinic in Los Angeles.

Contact: genelichtenstein@gmail.com
805-570-4432 (mobile)