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Diane Puchbauer, Psy.D.Assistant Professor of Graduate Psychology |
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5202 Email: dpuchbauer@apu.edu |
Diane Puchbauer, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy for children, adolescents, couples, and families in the areas of interpersonal relational problems, eating disorders and self harm, addictions, trauma and child abuse, sexuality, and spirituality. She is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Psychology Department. In addition to teaching, she provides clinical supervision, oversees the training program for the 1st-year-doctoral practicum, and teaches weekly practicum training seminars. In addition, she helps students organize and edit their dissertations. She is co-founder of Peak Experience Training and conducts professional training and development for paraprofessional field staff who work with troubled adolescents in wilderness therapy programs throughout North America. The manual she developed, Adventure Therapy for Adolescents: A Skills Training Manual for Adventure Counselors, serves as the text for the 8-day Clinical First Responder™ training.
Education
PsyD—Clinical Psychology, emphasis in Family Psychology, Azusa Pacific UniversityM.A.—Clinical Psychology, Azusa Pacific University
B.A.—Intercultural Studies, Biola University
Courses Taught
PPSY 551 – Theories of Personality and PsychotherapyPPSY 552 – Human Sexuality and Sex Therapy
PPSY 558 – Advanced Developmental Psychology
PPSY 561 – Child and Adolescent Therapy
PPSY 571 – Family Therapy
