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Robert Weathers, Ph.D.
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LIFE COACHING

Known to my clients and students as “Dr. Bob,” I have committed the past 30 years of my professional life to providing life coaching to individuals, along with teaching and training graduate-level mental health providers at several southern California universities. My primary goal across my entire career has been to help individuals reach their full potential, both in terms of an enriched emotional life as well as truly satisfying relational intimacy. My now hundreds of former students continue to apply such values as they professionally provide a wide range of mental health services all over the United States.

I hold a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Masters of Arts in Religious Studies from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena. I have specialized for years in the healing of addictive behaviors, particularly within the performing arts community. In addition to having served as founding clinical director of a local, nationally recognized residential drug and alcohol treatment center for adults, I have provided tens of thousands of hours of personal coaching to clients presenting with the entire range of real-life issues and concerns.

One area of career-long passion for me centers around holistic approaches to life coaching---where the entire spectrum of human experience, from body to mind to soul and spirit, is drawn upon for its resources and nourishing contributions to healthful living. Related to this area of career interest and expertise, I have published numerous articles in a broad cross-section of professional books, journals, and edited volumes.

Along with my vocational pursuits, I have maintained an active, lifelong involvement in music; including performing locally as a jazz, rock, and ethnic drummer and percussionist. Related to this artistic passion, I have regularly applied my having studied popular and ethnic drumming for over forty years by performing and lecturing widely, to both professional and general public audiences, on the connection between musical creativity, personal spiritual development, and psychological well-being.

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  • Education
    • Ph.D. Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, (APA-approved), 1985

    ---Major: Clinical Psychology
    ---Selected for Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare
    ---Selected for Who's Who in California
    ---Selected for Outstanding Young Men of America
    ---Selected for Who's Who in Health Professionals in America
    ---Selected for Who's Who in Los Angeles Health Care

    • M.A. Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, 1983

    ---Major: Religious Studies
    ---Travis Award for Integration of Psychology and Religion in a Theoretical Study, 1984

    • B.A. Fresno Pacific College, Fresno, CA, 1979

    ---Double major: (1) Psychology, (2) Religious Studies
    ---"Outstanding Student Award" (Valedictorian)
    ---Selected for Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
    ---Selected for National Dean's List
  • Specializations
    • Substance Abuse Treatment & Aftercare
    • Marital Communication & Problem-Solving
    • Stress Management & Promoting Resilience
    • Mid-Life Career & Relationship Transitions
    • Spiritual Issues & Existential Questions
  • Professional affiliations
    * Post-doctoral training at C.G. Jung Institute, Los Angeles
    * Taught for 15 years at Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Culver City, California
    * Founding clinical director of Passages Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Malibu, California
    * Current curriculum consultant at California Southern University, Irvine, California
  • Research & publication
    Weathers, R. S. (2006). Introducing a full-spectrum approach to psychotherapy. Conway Daily Sun (Special Issue on Health Professions), 18, 12-13.

    Gentile, S. R., Asamen, J. K., Harmell, P. H., & Weathers, R. S. (2002). The stalking of psychologists by their clients. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 33, 490-494.

    Weathers, R. S. (2000). The archetypal nature of percussion: Bridging psyche and soma. In S. Galipeau (Ed.), On the shores of the psyche: Seeking further understanding in Jungian psychology. Los Angeles: C. G. Jung Institute.

    Weathers, R. S. (2000). The rhythm of eros: A prospectus for analyzing human interaction in archetypal and clinical perspective. In W. Riess (Ed.), Breakdown & breakthrough: Jungian psychology at the millennium. San Francisco: C. G. Jung Institute.

    Jacoby, M. (1999). Jungian psychotherapy and contemporary infant research: Basic patterns of emotional exchange (R. Weathers, trans.). London: Routledge.

    Nelson, D. C., & Weathers, R. S. (1998). Necessary angels: Music and healing in psychotherapy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 38, 101-108.

    Weathers, R. S. (1995). Reconciliation: The work of Ralph Martin and its implications for psychotherapeutic practice. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 14, 365-373.

    Allman, L. S., De La Rocha, O., Elkins, D. N., & Weathers, R. S. (1992). Psychotherapists' attitudes toward clients reporting mystical experience. Psychotherapy, 29, 564-569.

    Weathers, R. S. (1990). Dream theory and research. In R. J. Hunter (Ed.), Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.

    Winocur, N., & Weathers, R. S. (1990). The false transformational promise of cults: Archetypal dynamics. Journal of Cultic Studies, 7, 160-173.

    Hedgespeth, J., & Weathers, R. S. (1990). The evil within versus the evil without: The importance of understanding the client's attributions to evil. Journal of Pastoral Counseling, 25, 80-89.

    Weathers, R. S. (1986). Meditation, altered states, and unpleasant experiences: A structural-developmental analysis. Dissertation Abstracts International, 46, 3620-3621. (University Microfilms Order No. DA8526351).

    Weathers, R. S. (1985). Locus of control and attention differences in the aging process. Masters Abstracts International, 23, 223. (University Microfilms Order No. MA1322816).

    Weathers, R. S. (1984). The limits of human wisdom: Scientific knowledge and religious commitment. Journal of American Scientific Affiliation, 36, 45-46.

    Weathers, R. S. (1984). (Review of Spirituality and human emotion). Journal of American Scientific Affiliation, 36, 118-120.

    Weathers, R. S. (1983). Dualism or holism?: A look at biblical anthropology, ethics, and human health. Journal of American Scientific Affiliation, 35, 8083.