Office:
Menlo Park, Ca 94025
(650) 283-2174
Email: mail@lynnsegal.com
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION:
LCSW License #: L3653 (California)
Board of Behavioral Examiners, Continuing Education Provider, California, #1347
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Concern EAP, Mountain View, Ca -Affiliate Counselor, 1987- present. Assessment, referral and problem-focused treatment with employees and their families from 250 major Silicon Valley Companies.
PRIVATE PRACTICE: Palo Alto, CA, 1975 - present. Short-term treatment with individuals, couples and families; long-term intensive psychoanalytic therapy with individuals.
Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA.
Coordinator, Clinical Externship Program, 1983-1987, administered and taught advanced training in brief and family therapy to social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists .
Clinic Staff Member, 1977 - 1985. Provided strategic, behavior-oriented therapy for individuals, couples and families.
Brief Therapy Project, 1970 -1984: Member of the team who developed the MRI Brief Therapy Model: researched and documented interventions, supervised clinicians, wrote papers and conducted training workshops in the United States and Europe.
Veterans Administration, Palo Alto, CA, 1969 - 1974. Psychiatric social worker, outpatient clinic. Duties included: crisis intervention, psychotherapy, case management and medication supervision.
TRAINING AND CONSULTATION:
I have conducted one and two day, problem-focused, brief and family therapy workshops for universities, hospitals, mental health agencies and professional conferences in major cities in the United States, England and Ireland. See training site list
BOOKS:
Fisch, R., Weakland, J. H., & Segal, L. The Tactics of Change: Doing Therapy Briefly. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982. Foreign language editions published in France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain.
Segal,L. The Dream of Reality: Heinz Von Foerster's Constructivism. New York: Norton, 1986; Foreign language editions published in France, Germany and Spain.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
I have published 12 journal articles about MRI Brief Therapy. See Article list
ACADEMIC HISTORY:
B.A. Psychology, Hofstra University, New York
M.S.W. Social Work, Adelphi University, New York
POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION:
Weekly analytic case consultation with David Lake, M.D. psychoanalyst and training analyst, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 1989-1995.
Weekly analytic group case conference with Bruno Bettelheim, Ph.d., 1980-1985
Center for Human Communication, Los Gatos, CA, One year intensive course in family therapy, 1970.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
National Association of Social Workers