About Dr. Sazan

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California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda, CA: Ph.D., 1994 

California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda, CA: M.A. 1992 

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA: B.A., 1989 

Psychotherapy Private Practice; Stamford, CT; 1996-Present

San Francisco Department of Public Health: Mission Integrative Service Center; Postdoctoral Fellow

California Pacific Medical Center: Family Therapy Clinic; Psychology Intern

University of San Francisco Counseling Center; Psychology Intern

San Francisco Department of Public Health: Mission Team 1; Psychology Trainee

La Casa De Las Madres, (San Francisco); Advocate and Counselor at Shelter for Battered Women and Their Children

Langley Porter Psychiatry: Adult Intensive Care Unit (San Francisco); Assistant Art Therapist

Iranian Student Association, SFSU; Advocate and Counselor​

Roozbeh Orphanage (Tehran, Iran); Director of Children’s Activities

“Iranian Jewish Women in the U.S.: Acculturation, Gender Roles, Assertiveness and Symptoms.” Ph.D. Dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology at Berkeley, 1994. 

“Iranian Jewish Women in the U.S.: Acculturation, Gender Roles, Assertiveness and Symptoms.” Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, New York, 1995. 

“Knowledge, Attitudes, and Misconceptions about AIDS: A study of Iranian Immigrants living in the U.S., 1994.

• English
• Persian
• Hebrew
• Arabic

• “Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference (Milton Erickson Foundation),” Attended, Anaheim, CA: December 2000; December 2005; December 2009; December 2013. 
• “Unknowable, the Unspeakable and Unsprung,” Attended, William Alanson White Institute Conference, New York, NY, October 2013. 
• ​“The Couples Conference (Milton Erickson Foundation),” Attended, Manhattan Beach, CA, April 2013.
  
• ​“The Couples Conference (Milton Erickson Foundation),” Attended, San Mateo, CA, April 2012.
  
• ​“Brief Therapy Conference (Milton Erickson Foundation),” Attended, San Francisco, CA, December 2012.
  
• ​“Feminist Relational Perspectives and Beyond: The Next Generation,” 21st Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Eating Disorders Conference, Attended, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2011. 
  
• ​“Brief Therapy Conference (Milton Erickson Foundation),” Attended, Orlando, FA, December 2010.
  
• “Revolutionizing Diagnosis & Treatment Using the DSM-V,” Attended, CMI Education Institute, White Plains, NY, October 2012. 
  
• “Transforming Ericksonian Methods,” Attended, 11th International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ, December 2011
• “Food, Body Image and Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community,” Renfrew Center Foundation Conference, Attended, New York, NY, June 2009. 
• Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Westchester, NY, studied at from 2008-2013. 
• “Fundamental Ericksonian Hypnosis Training,” Attended, 10th International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ, December 2007. 
• “Doing Supervision,” Cambridge Hospital, Continuing Education Division: Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA, April 2002. 
• “Current Issues in the Management of Schizophrenia and Co-morbid Weight Gain and Hyperglycemia,” Attended, at the Stamford Hospital Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Continuing Medical Education, Stamford, CT, December 2001.  
• “An Update on ADHD,” Attended, at the Stamford Hospital Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Continuing Medical Education, Stamford, CT, November 2001.  
• “Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry,” Attended, at the Stamford Hospital Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Continuing Medical Education, Stamford, CT, December 2000.  
• “How Understanding Culture, Class, Race, and Gender Differences Can Benefit Your Clinical Practice,” Attended, at the American International College: School of Continuing Education and Graduate Studies, Springfield, MA, April 1999. 
• “The Use of Antipsychotics for Aggression,” Attended, at the Stamford Hospital Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Continuing Medical Education, Stamford, CT, December 1998.  
• Completed Biofeedback Certification Program, administered by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. 
  

Guita A. Sazan, Ph. D.Licensed Clinical Psychologist  CT PSY# 002022