Continuing
Education
Our
Faculty
Our faculty bring a
wealth of expertise on natural approaches to achieving health and
well-being to helping professionals and others interested in the
learning about the wisdom and healing power of Nature.
Sarah Edwards
LCSW, PhD
Paul Edwards
JD
Shelia Clark, PhD
Michael Cohen
EdD
Clyde Glandon
DMin
Sarah Anne Edwards,
PhD, LCSW
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Over the past twenty-five years, Sarah
Edwards has helped thousands of people overcome the trauma, grief
and loss of change and create naturally fulfilling lifestyles lives
through seminars, workshops, and her private clinical counseling
practice, as well as through her nationally syndicated columns and
TV and radio shows.
She is the
Director of the Pine Mountain Institute, an educational organization
providing an ecopsychologically-oriented, transition focused
continuing education programs for helping professionals.
Sarah is the co-author with her husband Paul of seventeen books
including
The Practical Dreamer's Handbook,
Changing Directions without Losing Your Way and Finding Your Perfect
Work. Her first novel
Sitting with the Enemy, an ecopsychological drama
of personal and community transformation, is
in its third
edition.
Sarah received her Masters in Social Work from the University of
Kansas in 1974. and completed her PhD in Ecopsychology from
Akamai University in 2006, where she is currently on the faculty,
and EdD from San Juan University. She is
a Red Cross Authorized Instructor for teaching
Family Caregiving.
Additional clinical training includes:
- Integrated Behavioral Health and Brief Therapy
- Geriatric Care Management
- Red Cross Certification in
Family Care Giving
- Red Cross Disaster Mental
Health, Psychological First Aid, and
Basic Emergency Casework
-
Certification in Applied Ecopsychology from the International
University of Professional Studies
-
Ancient
Spiritual Healing Practices, Center for Sacred Arts
Training
-
Clinical Member,
International Transactional Analysis
Association
-
Provisional
Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis
Association,
-
Certified
NeuroLinguistic Programming practitioner
-
State Certified Biofeedback Training
-
Clinical Hypnosis
with Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. at the Ericksonian
Hypnosis Institute
-
Licensed Parent
Effectiveness Training Instructor
- Secondary
Education License, State of Missouri
Before opening a
private practice in 1977, Sarah served as Clinical Director of the
Cathexis Institute in Glendale, Californian, an out-patient
treatment facility for severely disturbed individuals. Prior to
that, she was Director of Social Work Training at the Kansas Medical
Center Children's Rehabilitation Unit and Parent Involvement and
Social Services Specialist for the Office of Child Developments
Kansas City Regional Office.
She has taught
courses for continuing education credit for the California
Association for Marriage and Family Therapists and the Life Purpose
Institute in San Diego, California. She is on the faculty of
Post-Peak Living has taught courses on practice and business
development at the University of California at Los Angeles and Santa
Cruz.
Sarah and her
husband Paul founded the Pine Mountain Institute in 1999.
 Paul
Edwards,
J.D.
Over the past
twenty-five years, Paul Edwards has helped thousands of people
create new and more fulfilling lifestyles through seminars,
workshops, and online consultations, as well as through his
nationally syndicated columns and TV and radio shows.
Dr. Edwards is
the co-author with his wife Sarah of seventeen books including
Working from Home, the first commecially published book on this
topic,
Middle-Class Lifeboat,
their most recent print book, the Working From Home Bar
Chart and the Working from Home Encyclopedia, an
interactive book.
He received his
Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1965.
Additional training includes:
- Special Member, International
Transactional Analysis Association
-
Certified
NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioner
- Clinical Hypnosis with Dr.
Milton Erickson, M.D. at the Ericksonian
Hypnosis Institute
- Program for Urban Executives,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In 1972, he was
named an Outstanding Young Man of Missouri.
Dr. Edwards
served as Administrative Director of the Cathexis Institute in
Glendale, Californian, an out-patient treatment facility for
severely disturbed individuals. Prior to that he was President of
the Environmental Research and Development Foundation, founded by
the Menninger Foundation and served as Coordinator of
Intergovernmental Relations for Jackson County Missouri.
He operated his
own public affairs and training company, first in Missouri, then in
California, teaching communication and negotiating skills to public
officials and corporations such as Southern California Edison,
Security Pacific Bank and Hewlett Packard.
He has taught
courses on practice and business development at the University of
California at Los Angeles and Santa Cruz and serves on the faculty
of the Life Purpose Institute.
Paul serves as a consultant to the Mountain
Small Business Development Center of WEV and is on the faculty Post
Peak Living.
In 1999, Dr.
Edwards and his wife Sarah founded the Pine Mountain Institute to
provide seminars and workshops on life change and transition.
 Shelia
Clark, PhD, MFT
Shelia Clark, Ph.D. is a
dual licensed mental health professional as a Marriage and Family
Therapist and as a Clinical Psychologist.
As a Forensic Evaluator, she has over 25
years experience in behavioral health treatment issues of the
injured worker, and has
served
as a Q.M.E. (Qualified Medical Examiner) for the California Workers
Compensation system and as a Disability Evaluator for the State of
California.
Her research articles on the cultural aspects of the injured
Hispanic worker have been published in the Journal of Applied
Rehabilitation Counseling and in Psychological Reports.
Her dedication to helping the medically
underserved is demonstrated daily in her commitment to directing
California Family Counseling Network, Inc., (CFCN) a charitable
nonprofit which she founded in 1996 to bring quality and affordable
mental health services to this needy population.
In
2008, she received the U.S. Presidential Lifetime Volunteer Service
Award, for recognition of the vast amount of donated professional
time given to this population.
CFCN is an Authorized American Red Cross
Provider, under which Dr. Clark is a Red Cross Authorized
Instructor.
She provides Disaster training to her
local community, as well as training in Family Caregiving.
Her contributions to her rural community
were acknowledged by a recent Federal award from the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) NHSC program.
Dr. Clark's high standards of
accountability is reflected by her volunteer service as a past Oral
Examiner for the California Board of Behavioral Science.
She supports the
standards of evidenced-based practices and was a Field Test Try-Out
Clinician for the re-norming on the Vineland
(2001), the K-ABC (2000), and the CASL (1997) assessment batteries.
Today, she continues an active treatment
practice, which encompasses all ages and most categories of mental
health issues, developmental delays, learning disabilities,
as
well as individual and family perspectives.
 Michael
J. Cohen,
Ph.D.
For over forty
years, ecopsychologist Dr. Michael Cohen has
lived in and led groups of others into settings similar to the
"Survivor" TV series, except Cohen?s goal was not to compete for a
million dollars. His goal was to discover how we can live in
sustainable balance with our natural environment. Since 1959,
he
has
camped and studied in eighty-four different ecosystems for
periods of three days to six months and lived among many human
communities including the Amish, indigenous people, outdoorsmen and
ecologists.
Cohen is the Director of the Institute of Applied
Ecopsychology at the International University of Professional
Studies in Hawaii. There he oversees an undergraduate and graduate
degree program based on the Natural Systems Thinking Process he
developed that restores people to their natural state of integrity,
physically, mentally and emotionally through the healing power of
Nature.
Dr. Cohen has authored numerous books including
Reconnecting to Nature and The Web of Life Imperative He
as served on the Adjunct Faculty of Portland State University
Graduate School of Extended Studies, is the Founder and Chair of
Integrated Ecology, World Peace University/Institute of Global
Education Portland, Oregon and is a Contributing Editor, Between the
Species Journal of the Albert Schweitzer Center, Berkeley, CA.
Professional Organizations:
- National
Association for Interpretation
-
Association For Experiential Education
-
North American Association for Environmental
Education
-
Coalition for Education in the
Out-of-Doors
-
Global Network of Environmental
Education
Centers
- lliance for Environmental
Education
Honors and Awards:
-
Distinguished World Citizen Award from the University of Global
Education
-
Keynote speaker at the national conferences of the:
North American Association of
Environmental Education
-
NY State Outdoor Education Association
Coalition for Education in the Out-of-Doors
-
Award for Excellence in Interpretation,
National Association for
Interpretation
 Clyde
C. Glandon,
D.Min.
LPC Oklahoma # 1597
Fellow, American
Association of Pastoral Counselor
Positions
Director,
Center for Counseling and
Education in Tulsa OK,
Staff Psychotherapist, Center for Counseling and Education, Tulsa OK
Associate Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Tulsa OK
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Williamsville NY
Associate Rector, St. James Episcopal Church, Batavia NY
Assistant
Canon, St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo NY
Education
D.Min. Phillips
Theological Seminary
School of Spiritual Directors, Pecos Benedictine Monastery
M.Div. Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
BA, History and Philosophy, University of Kansas
Professional
LPC Supervisor
Qualification, State of Oklahoma
LPC Certification, State of Oklahoma
Fellow, American Association
of Pastoral Counselors
Member, American
Association of Pastoral Counselors
Publications
Pastoral Counseling as a
Practice of Psychodynamic Spirituality? Journal of Pastoral Care,
Winter, 1999.
*Our courses meet the
qualifications for continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or
LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral
Sciences. Provider #2309 and for RN?s: Provider approved by the
California Board of Registered Nurses for 6 contact hours, Provider
#13577
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