Position:

Associate Professor, Associate Department Chair (Psychology), Director of the Master of Science Program

Contact Information:

jperetz@paloaltou.edu

Programs:

PhD and PsyD 

Education:

B.A., English, Princeton University (1993)

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University (2001)

Biography:

Dr. Jonathan Peretz earned his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) in January 2001. He began his graduate teaching career at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology in 2004, moved to Northern California in 2010, and began teaching at PAU 2012. He maintains a strong clinical focus and has worked on the staff of university counseling services at Livingston College at Rutgers University, the University of California at Davis, and the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to his faculty role at PAU, Dr. Peretz maintains a small private practice in San Francisco where he works with adults and adolescents. His clinical interests include mood disorders, trauma, LGBT concerns, adolescent mental health, mindfulness, contemporary experiential psychodynamic therapy (including AEDP and TLDP), cultural responsiveness and change mechanisms in psychotherapy, and the use of psychedelics in the treatment of mental health concerns.

Areas of Interest:

Contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy, culture and diversity in practice, social psychology, psychotherapeutic change mechanisms, mindfulness, and clinical supervision.