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Christine Mourad

Integrative Psychotherapy
Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Skilled in EMDR and Trauma Resiliency, Mindfulness, Regulation, Anxiety Management, Parenting Support,

Integrative Creative Arts


Couples psychotherapy emphasizing attachment and trauma processing.


Strong community and social services professional with Master's Degree, M.A., MFT focused in Counseling Psychology, Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Psychotherapist

Private Practice
Los Angeles, CA
03.2017 - Current
  • Psychotherapy for Couples, individuals, children and adolescents
  • Integrative support, EMDR processing, secure attachment, somatic awareness, regulatory practices, mindfulness
  • Psychodynamic, attachment, relational, transpersonal and somatic orientation

Grief Counselor

Roots and Wings
Malibu, CA
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Conducted group therapy for individuals who experienced loss from Malibu fires
  • Incorporated breath work and regulatory practices including yoga, creative arts, and sound healing to address grief and loss
  • Resiliency practices

Psychotherapist

Southern California Counseling Center
Angeles, CA
09.2015 - 08.2018
  • Provided therapy in a community public health sliding-scale setting committed to diversity in all forms
  • Facilitator 'Best Practices Parenting Group', strengths-based, ten-week course based in exploration of values, skills, and concepts regarding positive parenting and resiliency for clients
  • Created 'Mindfulness and Parenting' class for trainees and interns
  • Counselor in LAUSD public school system at elementary, middle and high school levels
  • Provided Trauma-Informed Yoga at SCCC - Watts to Court-appointed individuals, incorporating CRM skills, mindfulness skills, creative arts

Psychotherapist

Dr. Jana Mulvaney Psychotherapy
Santa Monica, CA
09.2015 - 08.2017
  • Performed psychotherapy, client assessments and developed treatment plans for families and dual diagnosis clients

Education

Masters of Fine Arts - Acting

New York University, Tisch School of The Arts, New York, NY

Extensive repertory training in all aspects of theater performance. Vocal and singing production, dialect, text, physical comedy, musical theater, classical to contemporary, film.

Master of Arts -

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA

Thesis, ProQuest, Half of the Sky: Integrating the Relational Right Brain in Adolescent Treatment Adolescent treatment has come to rely on behavioral correctives with an emphasis on autonomy. This emphasis neglects the importance of healing the relational capacity in order to build internalized security. Addressing insecure attachments enables adolescents to transform their internal working model established in their early life experiences, potentially enabling them to move forward confidently in the relational world ahead of them.

Trauma Certificate, Pacifica Graduate Institute -

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA
02.2021

Early Childhood Trauma, Ecological, Cultural and Intergenerational Trauma, Mind/Brain/Body, and Synchronicity and Spiritual Experiences in Trauma

Donald Kalsched, Mark Epstein, Pat Ogden, Ruth Lanius, Allan Schore, Joseph Cambray, Fanny Brewster

M. A - Counseling Psychology, Depth Psychology

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA
03.2017

Pacifica studies and training include a wide range of systems, including psychodynamic, somatic, family systems, child development, crisis and trauma, personality disorders, psychopharmacology, and extensive diversity and multicultural training, as well as Jungian psychotherapy. Depth psychology approaches clinical work by including dreams, myth, and the subconscious in accessing client's core issues and potential blocks to their goals, aliveness and internalized models.

Skills

  • AF- EMDR, Level 3, Parnell Institute, Kim Cookson, Trainer
  • CRM and TRM Trauma
  • Resourcing
  • Parenting
  • Mindfulness
  • Expressive arts as integrative modality
  • Trauma-Informed Yoga
  • Mindfulness and Somatic Awareness

Timeline

Grief Counselor - Roots and Wings
01.2019 - 01.2020
Psychotherapist - Private Practice
03.2017 - Current
Psychotherapist - Southern California Counseling Center
09.2015 - 08.2018
Psychotherapist - Dr. Jana Mulvaney Psychotherapy
09.2015 - 08.2017
New York University, Tisch School of The Arts - Masters of Fine Arts, Acting
Pacifica Graduate Institute - Master of Arts,
Pacifica Graduate Institute - Trauma Certificate, Pacifica Graduate Institute,
Pacifica Graduate Institute - M. A, Counseling Psychology, Depth Psychology
Christine MouradIntegrative Psychotherapy