Lisa Herman, MFT, Ph.D., REAT
- Ph.D. Integral Studies with Transformative Learning and Change Concentration, Inst. of Integral Studies, 2003
- M.Sc. in Educational Psychology (Counseling), California State University, Hayward, 1973
- B.A. Psychology (Phi Beta Kappa), University of California, Berkeley, 1972
- B.A. English, with a minor in French Literature, York University (Toronto),1969.
Lisa is the Director of Creative Expression Specialization at ITP and teaches in the Masters and Ph.D. programs. She is core faculty at the Institute of Imaginal Studies in Petaluma and adjunct faculty at the International School for Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS-Canada) in Toronto. She teaches online for Corinthian Colleges, Inc. and Heald College.
Lisa is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and a licensed MFT and supervisor. She has worked as an expressive arts therapist with couples, families, individuals and groups for over thirty years. Employed as a therapist and supervisor in Canada, the U.S. and Israel in community mental health agencies, prisons and hospitals, she also built and maintained a private practice in each of these countries. Lisa specializes in trauma-related issues with adults as well as children. She trains professionals and presents her work internationally.
A published novelist, poet and academician and a performance artist, Lisa is interested in arts-based research and the effect of images of evil events on the non-participant.
