Phone:   650.867.0835   email:  karen@kgibbonstherapist.com

“We cannot direct

the winds,

but we can

adjust the sails.”

-Bertha Calloway

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist & Registered Art Therapist in private practice; certified in the Cornell University Family Development program; and trained SoulCollage® facilitator

Education:  M.A. in Marital & Family Therapy and Art Therapy from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA; and B.S. in Computer & Information Science from University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama

Spent four years at Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC) in Mountain View, California:

1. --Served as Co-Director, and was instrumental in the start-up of the  FIRST 5 Santa Clara County Family Partner Family Resource Center in Mountain View, CA, supporting the healthy growth and nurturing of children prenatal through age five
   

2. --Provided school-based counseling and classroom interventions at:  Foothill Community College’s Middle College high school program; Egan Junior High in Los Altos; and Castro and Landels Elementary in Mountain View
   

Formerly held senior management positions in computing at both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley

Professional Associations:  California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists; American Art Therapy Association; SoulCollage® Facilitators Circle

Volunteer work: Conduct art sessions at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford