Ronald Alexander, PhD
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner), is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of California and Colorado. He also maintains a private practice in Santa Monica, California, working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. He is also a Creativity and Communication Consultant, International Clinical Trainer, and Executive and Leadership Coach. In addition, he is the Executive Director of the OpenMind Training® Program, a leading-edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in core creativity, mindfulness-based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. For more than forty-four years, Alexander has been a trainer of healthcare professionals in North America, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Australia. He is also the author of Core Creativity: The Mindful Way to Unlock Your Creative Self and Wise Mind, Open Mind.
Ronald Alexander is a leading pioneer in the fields of Mindfulness-Based Mind-Body Therapies, Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Ericksonian Mind-Body Therapies, Holistic Psychology, and Integrative and Behavioral Medicine. He is on the training faculty of The Gestalt Institute in San Francisco, a long-time senior extension faculty member of the UCLA departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entertainment, a lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Pepperdine Universities. Dr. Ron is a lifetime member of the American Psychological Association, a clinical member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and a Diplomate in professional psychotherapy in the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine and Counseling.
Ronald Alexander received his SEP Certificate from the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute in Boulder Colorado. He consulted with and received treatment from Milton H Erickson MD. He trained with Ernest Rossi and Steven Gilligan in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as well as with Daniel P. Brown of the Harvard Medical Cambridge Hospital professional training seminars in hypnosis and hypno-analysis. He also trained with and was certified by the Los Angeles Gestalt Therapy Institute and with Erving and Miriam Polster PhD of the Gestalt Training Center of La Jolla. In addition, he received training and supervision in Contemporary Gestalt and Family Therapies, Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, and Relational and Object Relations Therapies.
Financial Disclosures: Ronald Alexander receives a speaking honorarium from Leading Edge Seminars Inc.