| Heidi Zetzer, Ph.D. PSY 14216 Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic 1110 Phelps Hall UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9490 Phone: 805 893 8274 email: hzetzer@education.ucsb.edu |
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Clients Served: Adults, teens, children; couples and families (w/ a co-therapist when available)
Services Provided: Counseling & Psychotherapy, Assessment, & Consultation
Fees: Fee for service only, sliding scale.
Specialties: Depression and anxiety, trauma and recovery, adults molested as children, eating disorders, substance abuse/dependence (post detox), relapse prevention, relationships, parenting, personal and professional development.
Language: English
Education:
1983 B.S. Psychology Dension University, Granville, OH
1986 M.A. Counseling Psychology, Ohio State University
1990 Ph.D. Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Professional Experience:
I am currently the Director of the Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to running the clinic, I teach practicum and supervision courses, supervise graduate student clinicians, and participate in various research projects.
I was a core faculty member in the Graduate Psychology Program at Antioch University, Santa Barbara from 1996 to 2006. At various times, I served as the Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Traineeship Director, and Coordinator of the Professional Development and Career Counseling Program. I taught Multicultural Awareness, Multicultural Clinical Skills, Clinical Skills I, Feminist Theories of Psychology, Psychopathology, Integrating Clinical Skills, and Psychological Assessment.
From 1992-1995, I served as the Project Coordinator for the Couples Alcoholism Treatment Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I was licensed in 1995 and in the past have worked as a staff psychologist for UCSB's Counseling & Career Services and Child Abuse Listening & Medication (CALM).
Clinical Orientation: Tailored treatments; an integration of client-centered, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, and feminist-multicultural approaches to counseling and psychotherapy tailored to your unique needs.
We will work together to identify the ways in which you would like your life to be different. I aim to get to know you, or you and your child/adolescent, partner, or family so that together we can identify existing strengths as well as targets for change. For individual clients , change might occur in one or all of the following areas: owning and expressing feelings, recognizing and challenging counterproductive thoughts, learning new behaviors and reducing maladaptive ones. For couples and families change might include altering negative patterns of interaction, increasing pleasant experiences, enhancing intimacy, or adjusting to expected/unexpected life events.
Many people are unfamiliar with feminist and multicultural approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. These approaches are characterized by six basic principles (Goodman et al., 2004): 1) Ongoing Self-Examination: As your therapist, I am obligated to think about my own cultural identity and its impact on our working relationship, 2) Sharing Power: I share my knowledge and skills and recognize that you have valuable knowledge and skills to share with me, 3) Giving Voice: I want to hear what you have to say and I support you in having a "voice" in work/love/social domains of your life where you may feel silenced, 4) Consciousness-Raising: We will talk about life experiences that have made it harder than you imagined or easier than you expected and build connections between these experiences and your current challenges, 5) Build on Strengths , and 6) Tools for Social Change: Hopefully, you will feel stronger and more capable of making a change in your environment, if that is what you desire.
I endorse and aim to abide by APA's Guidelines for Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists , Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women , & Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients . I am committed to non-discriminatory and LGBT-affirming counseling and psychotherapy.
Professional Associations:
American Psychological Association (Member)
Division 17 - Counseling Psychology
Section on the Advancement of Women
Section on Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Section on Vocational Psychology
Section on Lesbian Gay & Bisexual Awareness
Division 35 - Society for the Psychology of Women
Division 44 - Society for Psychological Study of Lesbian Gay & Bisexual Issues
Division 45 - Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
Association for Directors of Psychology Training Clinics
California Psychological Association
Santa Barbara County Psychological Association