Trevor Dobbs
Trevor
Dobbs
Core Faculty
Campus:
- Pasadena
- Department
- Cultural & Family Psychology
- Institution
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Pacific Oaks College
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Address
- 45 W Eureka Street
- Pasadena, CA 91103
- Office Phone
- 626-529-8203
- Biography
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Dr. Dobbs maintains a part time private practice in psychoanalysis, individual, and couples psychotherapy in Pasadena, California. His areas of interest include Object Relations Therapy, Couples Therapy, the integration of psychology and theology, and the integration of neurological research with mental health practice.
Dr. Dobbs has a multi-disciplinary background that ranges from computer science, to theology, to psychoanalysis and couples therapy. He actively consults for the Interdisciplinary Training Institute whose founder (and his wife), Dr. Connie Lillas, specializes in bringing together the many disciplines that address the needs of young children; from the hospital, to the consulting room, to the courtroom. Dr. Dobbs brings this model of integration to his teaching at Pacific Oaks, challenging students to identify and address their own personality traits and biases, and to pursue becoming a well-rounded mental health professional.
- Education History
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Degree Institution Year Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Tustin, California 2003 Certified Psychoanalyst Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Tustin, California 1998 Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Tustin, California 1998 M.A., Marriage & Family Therapy Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California 1983 B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion and Computer Science Pepperdine University, Malibu, California 1978 - Professional Memberships
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Role Organization Faculty, Supervising & Training Psychoanalyst Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Pasadena, California. Certified Psychoanalyst Member Newport Psychoanalytic Society, May 1998. Clinical Member California Association of Marriage & Family Therapy - Licenses
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Marriage and Family Therapist, California Certified Psychoanalyst, California - Community Involvement
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Role Organization Educational Consultant Interdisciplinary Training Institute, Pasadena, California Research Consultant Neuro-Relational Framework (NRF) Research 2 Resillience - Areas of Expertise
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Area Expertise Marriage & Family Couples Therapy Neuropsychology/Neuroscience Clinical Neuroscience Therapeutic/Theoretical Orientation Family Systems Theory Psychoanalysis Trauma Complex Trauma Trauma Informed Practices - Research
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https://nrfr2r.com/feasibility-study-with-e4-nrf-phone-app/
- Question and Answer
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Please describe your teaching philosophy. I employ a history and systems perspective within which to present the broad range of theories and approaches in the mental health field. I invite and challenge students to identify and articulate their own personality traits and biases, and then apply this to the variety of clinical approaches that they will learn in the program.
- Presentations
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Title Location Date Link BBS Law and Ethics Exam: Preparing for Success Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California June 17, 2019 Systems Science in Assessing Stress in Children and Families World Congress on Infant Mental Health, Rome, Italy May, 2018 Past WAIMH World Congresses 
Gathering Physiological Data in Real-World, Real-Time to Enhance Treatment of Toxic Stress World Congress on Infant Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic June, 2016 Feasibility Study with E4 & NRF Phone App Applying the Neuro-Relational Framework to Training Foster Parents in Foster Children’s Stress Responses World Congress on Infant Mental Health, Edinburgh, Scotland May, 2014 Past WAIMH World Congresses Dream Analysis: Between the Covers Crowell Public Library, City of San Marino, California June 25, 2012 Course Instructor: The Writings of Harry Guntrip, doctoral course in Psychoanalysis The Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Pasadena, California Spring 2009 - Publications
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Book Trevor Dobbs (2007). Faith Theology and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry Guntrip. Eugene, OR: Princeton Theological Monograph Series, Pickwick Publications.
Trevor Dobbs (2009). Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip. Cambridge, U.K.: James Clarke & Co.
Chapter Trevor Dobbs (2002). John Macmurray's Influence on Object Relations Psychology. In Speidell, T. Editor (Ed.) On Being Christian . . . and Human (pp. Chapter 10). Eugene, OR.: Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Trevor Dobbs (2003). John Macmurray as a Philosophical Basis for Harry Guntrip'sn Object Relations Theory. In Speidell, T. Editor (Ed.) On Being a Person: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Personality Theories (pp. Chapter 6). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Journal Trevor Dobbs (2008). Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Religion as 'Persons in Relationship': The Influence of John Macmurray. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 28 (No. 5), 590-598.