Hardship lives in each one of us, and yet we are sturdy and resilient in ways we might have not recognized or acknowledged nearly enough. This can be a time of Self-Reflection about what to do, as a therapist, with this precious life. What contribution can we be to each other? I sometimes open […]
Meditations on Anger and Metabolizing Grief and Hate- Not easy but a worthwhile practice I teach people practical tools to maintain their presence in the face of anger. Politically or in the therapy office, Anger is not going away any time soon. As a couples therapist, I witness a lot of anger which can be […]
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Ilene Wolf, LMFT, RD/BCT, a licensed marriage and family therapist for more than 30 years, graduated from UC Berkeley and trained at Stanford University in Advanced Applications of Cognitive Therapy with David Burns, MD. She also trained and taught at The Mental Research Institute (MRI) of Palo Alto and internationally for The Milton Erickson Institute (MHEBA).
Ilene is the director of the Drama Therapy Institute. (www.dramatherapyinstitute.com)
She trained at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto in Brief Solution-focused Therapy.
Ilene is a past vice president of the San Francisco Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).
She was the teaching Assistant for The Milton Erickson Institute of the Bay Area (2010-2012) as well as David Burn’s Summer Intensive (2011) on Cognitive Therapy and the TEAM model. Ilene teaches internationally, most recently in Bolivia and Mexico.
Ilene has presented at the National Drama Therapy Conference and has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley. Ilene is the winner of the California Marriage and Family Therapists’ 2012 Education Foundation Award.