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 Mark Yoslow, MA (Education), MA (Psychology), PhD (Clinical Psychology)
“Perhaps the most important work I can provide for another human being is listening from the heart with the willingness to be present even when the story to be told is difficult to share. In that moment we get the chance to establish a fresh perspective wherein pain can be transformed into wisdom.” Dr. Mark earned his doctorate at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in 2007, where his focus was men's work, the existential and Jungian schools of psychotherapy, and the development of a Cognitive-Existential-Jungian clinical style.
Dr. Mark’s specialties focus on men’s issues and women’s issues with men. He offers treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), physical abuse, anxiety disorders, anxiety with PTSD characteristics, depression and suicidality, anger management, extreme stress related to work and relationships, personality disorders (including Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic, and Avoidant), overwhelm in the workplace. A main focus of his practice is Men’s Work for individuals and groups, and Veteran’s Services (he is enrolled in the California State Military Reserve). Mark is a Wilderness Guide for Vision Quests sponsored by Rites of Passage, Inc., as well as poetry therapist and co-facilitator for the Northern California Men’s Center under the direction of its founder, Gary Plep, LCSW, a nationally-known leader in men’s work. He also trained in Art Therapy with Jan Fisher, PhD and Integral Coaching with Rosie Kuhn, PhD, and provides several types of coaching.
Dr. Mark uses a number of different approaches to therapy including Cognitive Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy, and Jungian Depth Psychology. At times he will use poetry and journaling as a means of helping clients enter their hearts, and creative expression through several types of Art Therapy, especially finger painting on large murals. He also employs “active therapy” which involves walking, hiking, and moving meditation, as well as “Quest therapy,” which involves planning, training for, and pursuing an adventure in the wilderness or on the ocean, combined with meditation and journaling.
His dissertation focused on identifying a transgenerational fingerprint for a “post-Holocaust trauma” that is experienced by the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, and developed a new assessment to measure the presence of an unconscious process, the Cultural Complex Scale. He is the author and editor of books on addiction, AIDS, subarachnoid hemorrhage in the brain, and skin cancer. Dr. Mark was an executive in the health care communications and publishing business for 25 years, where his last position was Chief Creative Officer. His favorite pastimes are watching independent films, writing poetry, digging ditches, splitting wood, and cooking, because hard work makes him really hungry.
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(650) 324-9484 Ext. 9
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