CREATIVE GROWTH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Clinical Training Director
John Bradshaw: A Teacher for Our Times Written by our Center's Co-Director, Jason Saffer, this is an inspiring personal reflection on John's effect on millions of people and his influence as an agent of consciousness change world-wide.
Jean Hayes, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Ph.D. graduate of the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, has over 27 years of professional training and personal development as a Family Therapist and individual, psychodynamic ego psychotherapist. She is an action-method therapist using Psychodrama, Gestalt, and the Client-Therapist relationship to uncover and work through the hurt of childhood wounds. Through this process, Jean helps her clients find their deepest sense of self and inner voice, thereby being able to express their needs, wants, and boundaries with utmost authenticity.
Jean specializes in reconstructing relationships that are troubled, bringing together and working with multi-generational family groups; intervention and long-term recovery from alcohol, drugs, and eating disorder concerns; and developmental issues of aging. Her dissertation research was on long-term weight management and lifestyle change. As a result of her research, she has developed a comprehensive, innovative model for successful treatment for eating disorders. Jean also has expertise in organizational development and has developed and delivered management training programs to employees in organizations such as Levi Strauss, Hewlett-Packard, Memorex, and Miramonte Mental Health Center.
Mentors from whom Jean has learned her craft as a psychotherapist, and to whom she credits for her own personal growth and professional development, include extensive training with Martin Kirschenbaum, Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker, Daniel Levinson, Dorothy Satten, Stephanie Brown, and her co-directors at the Center for Creative Growth, Linda E. Katz and Jason Saffer, as well as her affiliated colleagues at the Center for Creative Growth.
Jean has also been trained by the John Bradshaw Center in state-of-the-art counseling methods pioneered and popularized by John Bradshaw for the treatment of codependency and other issues.
John Bradshaw has been called "America's leading personal growth expert"and "one of the most influential writers on emotional health in the 20th Century." The author of six New York Times bestsellers, Bradshaw On: The Family, Healing the Shame That Binds You, Homecoming, Creating Love, Family Secrets, and Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do The Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason, John's books have sold over four million copies in North America. He created and hosted four nationally broadcast PBS television series based on his best-selling books. John pioneered the concept of the "inner child" and brought the term "dysfunctional family" into the mainstream. He has touched and changed millions of lives through his books, television series, and his lectures and workshops all over the world.
We were very grateful to have years of personal contact and training with John. It was with deep sadness that we learned the news of John Bradshaw's passing in May, 2016. For his New York Times obituary, please click here.
John lived everything he wrote about. Born in Houston, Texas, into a troubled family, abandoned by his alcoholic father, he became a high academic achiever who was also an out-of-control teenager. He completed his education in Canada, where he studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, earning three degrees from the University of Toronto.
During his lifetime (1933-2016), he worked as a counselor, theologian, management consultant, and public speaker, becoming one of the primary figures in the contemporary self-help movement. He combined his exceptional skills as counselor, author, theologian, and public speaker over four decades to become a world-renowned figure in the fields of addiction, recovery, family systems, and the concept of toxic shame.
Job Titles:
- Therapist and Clinical Supervisor
Job Titles:
- Therapist and Clinical Supervisor