All interns are regsitered with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, have completed extensive training in psychology including at least a Master's in Psychology, are work under the direct supervision of Chris Tickner, MFT.
Sayun Scotton
Sayun Scotton specializes in holistic psychotherapy for adults, children and families in private practice in Pasadena, as well as agnecy and school settings in Los Angeles County. Her experience with families includes working with children and adolescents living in intact, foster, adoptive and multi-cultural family systems.
Sayun earned her Master's in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Somatic Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. Her research focuses on how attachment and brain development impact adults and couples. She has trained in insight-oriented, body-mind and expressive arts therapies, including the Hakomi Method, Voice Dialogue, Focusing, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.
Sayun received parenting training through the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting (CNVEP) in Los Angeles. Sayun is also certified in Sensori-Motor Psychotherapy, a body-oriented treatment approach for trauma/PTSD based on the research of Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Pat Ogden.
Sayun's specific interest in cultural identity evolved from her immersion in multiple cultures for many years. She was born overseas, and has lived in Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Sayun received a distinguished major in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia, and was awarded a Freeman Fellowship to study as a post-graduate in China at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center. She is fluent in Mandarin, and is also a certified yoga teacher and long-time practitioner of bodywork, reiki, and vipassana meditation.
Terese Scheick, MA, MFTI
Terese received a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Psychology (body-oriented psychology) from Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. The education was rich with research in trauma, attachment theory, and neuroscience. Her interest in the body-mind connection grew out of a passion for holistic medicine and my undergraduate education in family and human development.
She also received extensive training in psychodynamic therapy which emphasizes how our life experiences from early childhood on can cause dissonance in our daily life. This age old form of therapy combined with the cutting edge research of somatic psychology provides an integrated approach to uncovering and discovering the many layers of the human psyche and soma.
Terese is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.