Course: Psych 339, SF1 Cognitive-Behavioral and Short-Term Models of Counseling Trimester: Summer 2016 Instructor: Koke Saavedra, Psy.D. Ageno School of Business GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY Contact Information Email:
[email protected] Telephone: 510-684-9100 Office Hours: Please contact instructor to schedule appointment Class Meets on: Thursdays, from 4:00 – 6:40 PM Important Dates Course start date: Thursday, May 5 Course end date: Thursday, August 11 Instructor Biography Dr. Koke Saavedra is a Chile-born, Berkeley-based practicing licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in mindfulness-based, behavioral and interpersonal counseling/therapies for children, youth, parents and adults, both in individual and group-based settings, and for a wide variety of challenges. He is Clinical Director of Seeds of Awareness, a non-profit offering mindfulness training and therapy to K-12 children and staff across the Bay Area (www.seeds-of-awareness.org), as well as Mindfulness Trainer for METAS at Contra Costa College, and Clinical Supervisor at Family Works Community Counseling in Richmond. He was Training Director of the Berkeley CBT Clinic, affiliated with the Wright Institute; Staff Clinical Psychologist at Children’s Hospital’s Castlemont/Youth Uprising Clinic; and Staff Psychologist at the New Zealand Public Health Service; among other positions. He has extensive national and international experience teaching and training mindfulness-based and cognitive-behavioral approaches to students as well as to a wide array of helping, mental health, and scholl-based professionals, including as: as faculty at the Continuing Education Program of John F. Kennedy University and at the Felton Institute in San Francisco; adjunct teaching faculty at The Wright Institute and Argosy University; and regularly delivering professional workshops/trainings in New Zealand and at local Bay Area organizations, such as La Familia in Hayward, Kaiser Permanente, The Y-Team in Richmond, The Davis Street Clinic in San Leandro, etc.