J. Delfina Piretti, MFT
312 Third Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94118
Phone (415) 979-6689 
Psychotherapist/Expressive Arts Therapist • Lic. No. MFC 19697 • delfinapiretti@mac.com
PROFILE

•  More than 15 years clinical experience in private practice and institutional settings, including jails, hospitals, schools, and psychiatric facilities.

•  Offer clinical expertise and Jungian/Ericksonian perspective in integrating art and alternative modalities with psychotherapy.

•  Twelve years as a painter with a background in photography; committed to ongoing artistic growth and expression, as well as community art education and public art-making.

•  20 years meditation practice, in the Tibetan and Soto Zen traditions.


CONFERENCES / PRESENTATIONS

Guest Lecturer The International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference Living With Uncertainty , hosted by Tae.Peru; August 2012
in Lima, Peru. Workshop Title : Dream the World Into Being.
Guest Lecturer Course Title: The Complete Fresco. Lecture Title: Painting on the Cave Wall; Origins of the Creative Process. San Francisco, CA .
Creator and Facilitator:
August, 2009		 Open Air Children's Art Workshop, Pollino National Park, Noepoli, Italy Dream the World into Being
Creator and Facilitator:
March 2009		 Expressive Arts Retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains The Diving Tree: Art and Soul Retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Guest Presenter
October, 2007		 California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA .. Course Title: The Complete Fresco. Lecture Title: Painting on the Cave Wall; Origins of the Creative Process.
Guest Presenter International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference: Peace and Transformation, San Francisco, CA 2005.

Workshop Title: We Are One Body- Making Peace with Hands and Heart.

Guest Presenter California Association of Marriage, Family Therapists workshop, San Francisco Chapter, February 2004. Workshop Title: Expressive Arts and Meditation in Psychotherapy.
Guest Presenter International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference: Ecology and Expressive Arts, Banff, Canada, April 2002. Workshop Title: Washing the Feet of the Goddess: Ritual Foot Washing and Aromatherapy as Ancient Healing Arts.
Creator and Presenter Expressive arts therapy training sessions and workshops, San Francisco, CA, 2001-present. Workshop Title: Painting on the Cave Wall; Art and Awareness.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1989-Present  Private Practice,San Francisco Provides individual psychotherapy to adults and teenagers.
    • Areas of specialization include: Stress reduction, depression, addiction and recovery, creative coaching sessions, anxiety, trauma, abuse,and relationships.
    Expressive arts therapy groups and workshops for adults and play and art therapy groups for children.
    • Clinical hypnotherapy, EMDR, EFT, sandplay therapy, mindfulness based cognitive therapy.
    • Co-founded Creative Arts Psychotherapy Center, offering education, training, consultation workshops and classes in expressive arts therapies to professionals, institutions, non-profit agencies and corporations.
2007-2009 University of California Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA. Adjunct Faculty, Counseling & Psychotherapy as a Career Option • Teach professionals and students undergoing career transitions, using didactic and experiential approaches to explore the career choices that are available in the field of psychology.
2003-Present   California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA • Current adjunct faculty member/Expressive arts therapy programs, teaching EXA Group Supervision and Power of the Arts courses to more than 30 graduate students in the Expressive Arts Therapy Program.
1999-2001   SAGE Project, Inc., San Francisco, CA • Providing treatment for women recovering from trauma, addiction and prostitution.
  Clinical Director, Star Center Day Treatment Program •  Directed Public Arts programs and secured grant funding through San Francisco Arts Council for Cab Top Art Ads project that addressed violence prevention, sexual exploitation and human rights issues.
1994-1998  Clinical Supervisor ,Support Network for Battered Women, Mountain View, CA

•  Developed and supervised violence prevention program at George Mayne Elementary School, offering individual, group, and family therapy.

 

Clinical Supervisor, Northern California Service League, San Francisco, CA

•  Supervised and trained interns doing expressive arts and play therapy with children of domestic violence.
1992-1994   Program Development •  Developed and facilitated programs for men and women in two San Francisco County Jails, including Women’s Support Groups, Parenting, Anger Management, and Expressive Arts Therapy.
  Art Direction •  Produced six kiosk posters with incarcerated women in recovery, in collaboration with SF Art Commission.
1988-1991  Mental Health Treatment Specialist / Unit Leader ,Contra Costa County Main Detention Facility, Martinez, CA •  Provided clinical assessment and treatment services to male and female inmates on the mental health unit. Led expressive arts therapy groups.
1983-1988    Expressive Arts Therapist / Staff Therapist, Northeast Lodge of Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA •  Performed clinical assessment and treatment, and provided expressive arts therapy to adult psychotic population at acute care residential treatment.
   

•  Directed Mural Art Project, creating public art works within and outside the facility.


EDUCATION & TRAINING
2010 Steven Gilligan Ph.D. Trance Camp Forty eight hours of Training in Generative Trance & Self Relations Work,
San Diego, CA.
May 8 2010 Sf Jung institute Workshop: On Addiction By Gail Grynbaum , RN, PhD.
2009 Jung and India Workshop Jung Institute San Francisco Indian Classical Music, Alchemy, and Active Imagination
2009 Dreamdancing Course /SF Exploring dreams through authentic movement. Year long training with Tina Stromsted PhD. & Jungian analyst.
2008/2009 Jungian Expressive Arts Training and Consultation Group/SF With Kate Donohue PhD.
1982 M.A., Clinical Psychology, Concentration in Creative Art Therapies, Antioch University, San Francisco, CA,
1977 B.A., Liberal Arts/Photography SUNY Empire State College and The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY,
  Yoga Teacher Training Yoga Mendocino, Ukiah, CA
2006 Yoga Training with Angela Farmer & Victor van Hooten Lesvos, Greece
  Expressive Arts training includes independent study in voice and movement with Roy Hart Theatre, Carol Swann Action Theatre, and Authentic Movement.
2002-2003 Training in Flying Trapeze San Francisco Circus Center, San Francisco, CA,
1996-presen Study with professional artist Larry Robinson Oakdale Painting Studios, San Francisco, CA, t.
  20 years of Vipassana Meditation and Yoga practice Shambhala Meditation Center and the San Francisco Zen Center.
2000 Training in Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex PTSD Bessel van der Kolt, M.D., San Francisco, CA,
2000 Training in Somatic Experiencing Sylvia Conant , Berkeley, CA,
  EMDR Training Certificate, 1999  
  Thought Field Therapy Certificate, 1998  
1995 Clinical Hypnotherapy Certificate - 250 hours of training Institute for Educational Therapy, El Cerrito, CA,
  Ongoing Clinical Hypnotherapy and Ego State Therapy coursework Noelle Poncelet, Ph.D. and Maggie Phillips, Ph.D. of the California Institute of Clinical Hypnosis, San Francisco, CA.
  Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist (MFT) since 1984  


AFFILIATIONS

  International Expressive Arts Therapy Association  
  California Association of Marriage, Family Therapists  
  San Francisco Zen Center