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Gerry Grossman, MA, LMFT has been successfully training MFT Written and WCV candidates for the BBS licensing exams since 1985. He has an extensive knowledge of MFT practice and an in-depth understanding of the licensing exam process. His teaching style is clear, incisive, humorous and empathic. Gerry has helped thousands of candidates obtain their licenses and gain additional clinical skills.
Specializing in children's issues, Gerry conducts therapeutic enrichment groups for preschool children, consults as a child development expert to schools in the Los Angeles area, and has appeared on television and radio. His private practice in West Los Angeles focuses on parenting issues and play therapy. He is also a seasoned hypnotherapist dealing with test-taking anxiety, weight reduction, pain management and smoking cessation.
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Patricia E. Patton, Ph.D, LMFT is a clinical psychologist (PSY 13266) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC 27419). She has developed Gerry Grossman Seminars Continuing Education courses on Domestic Violence, Anxiety Disorders and Anger Management.
Patti consistently receives rave reviews from her students, and can be counted on to deliver practical material in a stimulating, engaging fashion.
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Chuck Moshontz, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a diverse private practice specializing in men's issues, couples counseling, and working with parents and children.
In addition to his private practice and teaching at Gerry Grossman Seminars, Chuck is an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University. He supervises interns at the Antioch Counseling Center and at Southern California Counseling Center, where he is also a faculty member in the clinical training program and the community counselor certification program. Chuck's first career, in television and radio broadcasting, helped him to develop skills in language and oral presentation which come in handy preparing GGS students to pass their licensing exams. |
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Jorid Nygard, MA, LMFT has been preparing therapists for their MFT licensing exams since 1991. Through the many years of helping develop course materials and teaching courses for the MFT Written and WCV exams, Jorid has developed a comprehensive mastery of all the subject areas involved in passing the exams.
Her high level of energy and wonderful sense of humor make her a popular teacher. Many exam candidates experience the exam preparation process as an overwhelming and daunting challenge and greatly appreciate her command and overview of the many subjects involved, finding her teaching style and structure extremely beneficial.
Jorid has been a practicing psychotherapist since 1988 and has specialized in the areas of abuse, chronic illness and addiction. She runs therapy groups for therapists and others who are survivors of childhood abuse. She combines a contemporary psychodynamic approach with an experiential style. |
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Rocio Hernandez, MA, LMFT, or "Cio" is
an instructor for the Gerry Grossman Seminars, Northern California Division.
She currently facilitates Written Clinical Vignette classes in Emeryville, in an effort to help
students prepare for their WCV exams. She also teaches our Continuing Education workshops on HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence with an emphasis on interactive learning.
Cio is an Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner for Marin County Health and
Human Services, where she specializes in Spanish speaking survivors of sexual
abuse, teen pregnancy and issues of reproductive health. She is involved in
many community building efforts in Marin County and has a small private practice
in San Rafael. She is also on the Institutional Review Board for Kaiser Foundation
Research Institute.
At home, Cio enjoys volunteering for her son's pre-school, taking long nature
walks and spending time with her family. |
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Suzanne Mell, MA, LMFT has been teaching courses and providing one-to-one tuturing for Gerry Grossman mostly in the Sacramento area, since September 1999. She received her Masters degree from National University - Sacramento in 1995 and passed her licensing exams in January 1999. Her area of expertise is working with children, adolescents and their families, but over the years she has worked with many different ages and stages.
Suzanne has worked for Amador County Mental Health as a child clinician and as their Children's System of Care Coordinator, and has also provided clinical supervision for MFT and CSW Interns. Currently she is in private practice in the Amador & Sacramento County areas and is a contract clinician at Rite of Passage - Sierra Ridge group home.
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Andrew Teton, MA, LMFT commuted from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to study with Gerry Grossman for both his written and orals exams. After passing both exams on the first attempt, Andrew started offering Gerry Grossman classes for both the written and oral exams in Santa Barbara where he has found interns in the Central Coast area extremely receptive to having locally based licensing classes.
Andrew is noted for his sense of humor and has served as the "comedy break" entertainer at several local CAMFT functions. He received his Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Santa Barbara, and has also participated in the Hakomi Body Inclusive Therapy training. |
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Anne Wilford, MA, LMFT received her Masters degree from John F. Kennedy University and has been an instructor with GGS for nine years. She joined Gerry's instructors after passing both the written and the orals on her first attempt. Gerry's program was vital in this achievement. She teaches all aspects of the WCV program including the 22-hour course and specializes in tutoring. This combines many facets of Anne's former 35-year career as a performing artist that culminated in the off-Broadway show "Left-overs, the Ups and Downs of a Compulsive Eater."
Anne's preparation classes teach stress management techniques and focus on the "authenticity" of each individual. She especially enjoys the challenge of problem solving with students to find their own style.
Anne's clinical experience includes working with adolescent psychiatric in-patient programs and adult, dual diagnosis day treatment. For the last ten years, she has had a private practice in Berkeley working with individuals in long-term, in-depth therapy and transformational couples work. She has over 30 years of teaching experience and truly enjoys the balance of teaching the prep courses and practicing in-depth psychotherapy. She also feels that a sense of humor is imperative to this challenge of the exam process.
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Scott Singer, MA, LMFT has worked for AIDS Project Los Angeles since 1994 and has experience running their intensive in-home case management and mental health programs. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles which focuses on issues pertaining to gays & lesbians, HIV/AIDS, and addictions.
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Samantha Deming, MA, LMFT, has been part of the Gerry Grossman instructional staff since January 2000. Samantha is an asset to the seminar because she has had many years of teaching experience prior to her teaching for the seminar. Students find her easy to follow because she very organized in her presentation. She is also very animated and brings a lot of her natural humor into the classroom.
In addition to teaching for Gerry Grossman Seminars, Samantha maintains a full-time private practice split between Santa Clarita and Encino. Her specialities include couples, anxiety, depression, trauma, E.M.D.R., grief, survivors after suicide, and the treatment of twins.
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Jaelline Jaffe, PhD, LMFT has been a licensed MFT since 1976. She received her doctorate from USC in 1985. Shortly after this she began working with Gerry Grossman Seminars and was instrumental in developing early training materials for the MFT exam prep courses. For more than 30 years, Dr. Jaffe was a teacher and counselor in a large, urban school district. During the last 15 of those years, she trained and supervised more than 100 trainees and interns, who provided individual and group counseling for more than 4,000 adolescents.
Dr. J has an extensive background in brain/mind research, ritual, multiple intelligences theory, and emotional/developmental trauma (attachment issues). She has published more than 60 articles on mental health issues on the worldwide web. Her private practice is in Sherman Oaks where she sees many couples and individuals, and conducts groups for those with eating disorders, medical issues, and relationship difficulties.
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Melanie Haro, MA, LMFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist. As an intern, Melanie counseled at-risk youth and their families both in drug treatment and at a nonpublic school. After obtaining her license (thanks to GGS), Melanie turned her focus to utilizing the expressive arts for the purpose of facilitating healthy relationships among parents and children.
Melanie created "Belly Bonding," a series of workshops that encourage the development of early attachment between a mother and her unborn baby. This unique specialty combines her passion for the arts with her training and experience as a therapist. |
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