Chris Tickner

  
Chris Tickner, PhD(c), MFT

  Licensed Psychotherapist
  1191 E. Walnut St., #104
  Pasadena, California, 91106

  Phone: 818-568-6982
  Email: Contact Chris

  Website: www.BodyMindPsych.com


""At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." -Lao Tzu Holistic Psychotherapy for Body, Mind and Spirit. Becomes sometimes words are not enough."

Chris is a Licensed Psychotherapist in private practice in Pasadena, CA. While always interested in holistic medicine, it wasn't until after forays into the worlds of theatre and music that he started to practice his own form of healing. He opened his massage therapy practice in 1996 and quickly came to appreciate how the body and the mind are truly linked, and cannot exist, nor be treated, separately.  He attended Naropa University in Boulder, CO where he received his MA in Somatic Psychology. In this cutting edge program, Chris was able to study the body-mind connection in depth. Here he came to understand the important connection between the brain, our bodies and how we grow and change over time.   Chris continues his studies in Somatic Psychology as he works towards his PhD (projected 20011) from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.   Chris has worked with some of the most at-risk and severely emotionally disturbed children and their families in the Los Angeles area providing individual, family and group psychotherapy. Additionally, he works with families who have made the important and challening decision to adopt foster children.   Chris is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists ( www.camft.org ), and the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy ( www.usabp.org ).   Chris' interests include spirituality and meditation, music, theatre, hiking, singing, gardening, and tending to his 11 animals.