Genie Palmer
- Ph.D., Transpersonal Psychology, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1999
- M.A., Transpersonal Psychology, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1995
- M.S., Gerontology, University of North Texas, 1989
- B.S., Gerontology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 1985
- Diploma in Nursing, St. Paul School of Nursing, Dallas, 1963
Genie is the Dissertation Director and an Assistant Professor in the Residential Program of the Institute. She is also actively involved in the Institute's Spiritual Guidance Specialization, assisting in the facilitation of the Spiritual Guidance Council and serving as a supervisor for spiritual guidance interns. Prior to moving to California in 1992, Genie worked in Texas as a Registered Nurse for thirty years and as a Gerontologist for seven years. As a gerontology counselor and educator, she worked with well, healthy older adults around issues of successful aging, bereavement, spirituality, and lifestyle changes. Her dissertation research, for which she received the Sidney M. Jourard Award for excellence in student research, centered on individuals who have exceptional human experiences.
Her research interests include the study of the meanings and life impacts of non-ordinary and transcendent experiences and other exceptional human experiences, the connection between psychology and spirituality, spiritual development, change, and transformation, and group spiritual guidance, particularly from cross cultural and cross traditional perspectives.
Genie maintains a private practice in spiritual guidance, working with individuals and groups to foster spiritual growth and development and to facilitate assimilation and integration of varieties of exceptional human experiences.
