Cinematherapy.com Professional Directory
Persons listed on this directory are therapists, educators or other professionals actively working with the healing and transformative power of movies. To be listed on this site, please fill out this form. In order to preserve the integrity of this directory, all submissions will be subject to selection and editing by the owner of this site; in order to be fair, all entries will be listed in order of last name.
Stuart Fischoff
Profession: Psychology
Professor
Primary occupation: Professor
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: Ph.D
in Clinical Psychology, Lic: PSY4658
Practice/Company: Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara,
CA; Emeritus Professor, Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
Address: 5911 Canyon Heights Lane, Los Angeles, CA,
USA 90068
Web site: Journal
of Media Psychology, Senior Editor
Email: sfischoff@fielding.edu
Phone: 323-466-3078
Began using films in work: 1966
Specialty: Every quarter in several classes I use films
to demonstrate psychological principles, conditions, pathologies, coping
strategies, dysfunctional life styles, etc.
Publications/presentations: Have written several articles
on the subject and have been interviewed extensively over the years
in print and on television. Presently supervising student on doctoral
dissertation in area of cinematherapy and its effectiveness.
Ursula Szabo Henningsson
Profession: psychologist,
filmscientist
Primary occupation: journalist
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: MS
Practice/Company: private practice
Address: Föreningsgatan 54/c, Malmö, Sweden,
21214
Web site: Filmterapi.se
Email: info@filterapi.se
Phone: 070.679.3111
Began using films in work: 2000
Specialty: individual and grup therapy with borderline
patients, PTSD, burn-out
Publications/presentations: Pschologyauthor of 2 bocks,
many appereances in the media(TV, print, radio)
Pekka Lehto
Profession: Director,
Karhula Clubhouse
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: specially
trained nurse for psychiatry, movie therapist
Practice/Company: Southeast Finland's Socialpsychiatric Association
Address: Koskivirrantie 6, Anjalankoski, Kymi, Finland
46910
Web site: http://koti.mbnet.fi/plehto/eetee/eetee.html
(Finnish) http://koti.mbnet.fi/plehto/eetee/movie.html
(English)
Email: p_lehto@hotmail.com
Phone: (358) 5 49 202 59
Began using films in work: 1979
Specialty: active movie therapy (= making own therapeutic
videos and using game consoles in therapy)
Publications/presentations: About Movie Therapy
(1996) in Finnish, The End /Happy Beginning (1997) in Finnish,
Movie as a Transitional Object (1997) in Finnish, Window
and Mirror in Movies (1997) in Finnish, several articles &
interviews in Finnish magazines and newspapers
Francis Lu
Profession: Psychiatry
Primary occupation: Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,
UCSF
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: MD, Board-Certified,
CA license
Practice/Company: Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General
Hospital, UCSF
Address: 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA
94110
Email: francis.lu@sfdph.org
Phone: 415.206.8984
Fax: 415.206.8942
Began using films in work: 1987
Specialty: Films and transpersonal psychology
Publications/presentations: Since 1987, I have co-led
17 five-day film seminars at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA on films
and transpersonal psychology. 12 have been co-led with Brother David
Steindl-Rast.
Tina Murzynski
Profession: Behavioral
Health Therapist
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: Bachelors
in Psychology, Peer Counselor, CNA, PCA, movie therapist
Practice/Company: Deerfield Behavioral Health, Child, Adolescent
and Adult Behavioral Therapist
Address: PO Box 126, McKean, PA, USA 16426
Web site: Cinema
Therapy for Children and Adolecents
Email: stmurzy55@adelphia.net
Phone: (814) 476-0690
Began using films in work: 2002
Specialty: Child/Adolescent Cinema Therapy
Frank Sommers
Profession: Psychiatrist
Primary occupation: Private Practice
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: M.D.,
and Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Canada
Practice/Company: Lecturer (retd), University of Toronto, Faculty
of Medicine
Address: 406-360 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, M5S 1X1
Web site: Sex
Therapy and Education
Email: fs@drsommers.com
Phone: 416-922-7335
Began using films in work: 1976
Specialty: Focus is on sexual therapy of couples, and
single men and women, with a highly effective, short term treatment
method. Have produced and directed a number of films and videos to assist
this work - some now are in worldwide circulation. One,Taking Time
To Feel, was a finalist in the American Film Festival, New York
City
Publications/presentations: Author of 1 book and 3
films/videos, as well as many papers, and workshops. Many appearances
in the media (television, print, radio)
Dr. Fuat Ulus
Profession: Psychiatrist,
Transactional Analyst
Primary occupation: Full-time Medical Director of Behavioral
Health Inpatient Unit
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: Medical
Doctor, Board Certified in Psychiatry
Practice/Company: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Millcreek Community Hospital, Erie, PA 16509.
Address: BHU, MCH, 5515 Peach Street, Erie, PA 16509,
USA
Web site: movietx.yourmd.com
Email: uluslar4@aol.com
Phone: (814) 868-8270
Fax: (814) 868-8274
Began using films in work: 1978
Specialty: Anti-mental health stigma work in the community,
PTSD, burn-out, assertiveness and empowerment classes, cognitive-behavioral
sessions designed for phobias- panic-stress-anxiety disorders
Publications/presentations: Authored book, Movie
Therapy, Moving Therapy(2003), Trafford Publications; Presentations:
Film Therapy Can Engage the Patients, American Psychiatric
Association andinternational workshop; Articles: Clinical Psychiatry
News, April 2003, Associated Press article with other experts picked
up by CNN and many global newspapers
Birgit Wolz, Ph.D.
Profession: Psychotherapist
Primary occupation: Private Practice
Degrees, professional certificates, licenses: Ph.D.,
MFT, Lic: MFC32637
Address: 4289 Piedmont Ave. #204, Oakland, CA 94611
Web site: Cinematherapy.com;
bwolz.com
Email: bwolz@earthlink.net
Phone: 925.376.8359
Began using films in work: mid 1990s
Specialty: Cinema Alchemy, individual and group therapy
that uses the power of movies for healing and transformation
Publications/presentations: Cinema Alchemy: A Movie
Lover's Workbook for Healing and Transformation (to be published
in 2004); numerous articles and workshops (for complete listing see
Articles
by Birgit and The
Press Room.)