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If you are a therapist who utilizes Michael Gurian's theories or related materials, please email us your location and availability, as well as your biographical information.  We'd like to learn more about you so that we can refer clients to you.  We are often asked for referrals in various cities.

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Therapists and Social Workers Utilizing Nature-Based
Theory and the Theories of Michael Gurian

Most of these professionals have emailed or otherwise contacted the Gurian Institute, providing their contact information and writing of their affinity with our theories and programs.  Others have been suggested to us by others who are sympathetic to our theories.  While we have not tested the services of any of these professionals, we hope you will explore their suitability to your needs via their websites and contact with them.  Some of these practitioners provide phone services and counseling. 

Daniel Amen, M.D. and the Amen Clinics, www.amenclinics.com.

Joanne Baum, drjobaum @rmi.net, Respectful Parenting of From Birth Through the Terrific Twos.

Beech Acres Parenting Center: For Parent Coaching, try the Online Parent Coaching feature at www.beechacres.org.

Jan Falk, LCSW provides a workshop for teens and parents who are experiencing crisis.  logicaldog@ cox.net.

Bruce Gilberg, Ph.D., M.P.A.  Founder of infant organization called Generation Two (G2).  bruce_gilberg @rockefeller.senate.gov


J. Gail Armstrong-Hall, Ph.D., paleo20 @hotmail.com, Educational Assessment.

Mary Hayes Grieco, www.maryhayesgrieco.com.  Couples Issues. 612-721-5590.  Author of Husband Disappointment.

David Herz, President, Confident Living.  Dherz4060 @aol.com. Denver.

Sheila Hight, psychotherapist.  brian.sheil.hight @clearn.net.nz.


Mary Helen Hopponson, psychotherapist, hopponmh @brookings.net.

Stephen Johnson, Ph.D. drj @drstephenjohnson.com.  Woodland Hills, serving Southern California. www.menscenterlosangeles.com

Sam Jolman, in Colorado Springs, Co.  Works with clients in areas of addictions, identity struggles, anger issues, sexual and relationship conflict, depression, and anxiety.  Also specializes in couples and marital counseling.  719-447-7446.  www.samjolman.com
 
Joe Kort, M.A., joekort @joekort.com.  "Would the Small Child You Once Were Look Up to the Adult You Have Become?" 

Jo Langford-Fuchs, beheroes @mac.com, Seattle.

Demitri Papolos, MD.  New York.  Jpapolos @optonline.net.  Author of The Bipolar Child, Overcoming Depression.


Gary and Sue Plep, LCSWs, Los Gatos, CA.  www.mensgroups.com

Sue Quiriconi, MSW, LISW, University of Wisconsin. royq2000 @yahoo.com

Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D., Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.EducationalOptions.com. Author of “Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind” (2005). Focus is on meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of the intellectually gifted by means of IQ and personality testing and consultation.

Bret Stephenson, M.A., Lake Tahoe, bret @labyrinthcenter.org, Author of Slaying the Dragon (re: adolescent males).


Madelaine J. Watson.  mjwatsonlcsw @triad.rr.com, Greensboro, NC.

Sue Wintgens, psychotherapist in the UK.  suewintgens @hotmail.com






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