Selected Professional Papers and Presentations

Caring for Ourselves through Creativity and the Arts, Symposium: Therapist Self-care—Expressive Writing and Artful Practices Creating Well-being. Presented at the 124th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 6, 2016, Denver, Colorado.

Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist As Artist. Presented at Humanistic Psychology Conference,
Society for Humanistic Psychology, San Francisco State University, March 17, 2016, San Francisco, California.

Panel Arts and Health: Caring for Ourselves through the Arts. Co-Presenters: Ilene Serlin, PhD, Daniel Hymans, PhD & Tobi Zausner, PhD. Presented in Society for Humanistic Psychology, Hospitality Suite at the 2015 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, August 7, 2015, Toronto, Canada.

Dance therapy, Creativity and Self-Care, Instructors: Ilene Serlin, PhD & Pamela McCrory, PhD Sponsored by Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology, March 15, 2015.

Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist As Artist, Symposium: Psychotherapy as a Creative Process. Presented at the 122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 8, 2014, Washington D.C.

The Hidden Wounds of War. Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association,
Fourth Annual Diversity Workshop: Identifying and Serving the Needs of Service members, Veterans and Military Families, Los Angeles, July 13, 2013

Couples and Families Affected by War: An Attachment Perspective. The Soldiers Project Annual Conference, Los Angeles, October 12, 2013.

Couples and Families Affected by War. Ventura County Psychological Association, October 1, 2010.

Women and Stress: The Tend and Befriend Phenomenon. Women’s Leadership Forum Workshop, California State University, Northridge
March 3, 2010

Psychotherapy with Couples and Families Affected by War, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Ventura Chapter
January 16, 2010.

Couples and Families Affected by War. California State University, Northridge Continuing Education Workshops Program, November 2009,
Northridge, California

Couples affected by Combat Stress: Impact on Attachment Bonds. Combat Operational Stress Conference of the Marine Corps, August 13, 2008,
San Diego, California

The Genius of Marriage: Creativity and the Developmental Process. Poster presented at the 115th Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 17, 2007, San Francisco, California.

Cooperative Testing. Poster presented at the 115th Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 17, 2007, San Francisco, California.

Love and work: The Aspirations of Young Women from Diverse Sociocultural Backgrounds. Paper presented at the16th National Conference of the Association of Women in Psychology, March, 1991, Hartford, Connecticut.