Who Is Peter?

Peter Wright MFTI am a Somatic Psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco.  I am also Adjunct Faculty in the Somatics program at the California Institute for Integral Studies, Clinical Supervisor for the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy in San Francisco, and a consultant to clinicians and social service agencies throughout the Bay Area.  Many years of personal and professional studies with the founder of Formative Psychology®, Stanley Keleman, are deepening my understanding of Formative Principles, providing the primary frame for my work.  I have also been practicing the art of Aikido for over 20 years, a practice that informs how I understand transition, growth and relationships.

 

Professional Experience

2002 to present Psychotherapy Private Practice, San Francisco and Berkeley
2004 to 2013 Consultant and Supervisor, Hamilton Family Center, San Francisco
2004 to 2013 Clinic Manager, Center for Somatic Psychotherapy, San Francisco
2007 to 2010 Adjunct Faculty, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco
1996 to 2006 Program Director, Raphael House, San Francisco
1990 to 1995 Supervisor, Family Therapist, Milieu Therapist, Adolescent Intensive Residential Services, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
1991 to 1992 Director of Services, Healing Center for Survivors of Political Torture, San Francisco
1987 to 1989 Supervising Counselor, Children’s Home Society, San Francisco

Workshops and Presentations

  • Somatic Assessment and Diagnosis – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2009, 2012
  • Effort Based Support:  Re-orienting Social Services Toward Staff and Client Empowerment – Hamilton Family Center – 2012 – 2013
  • Somatic Interventions – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2012
  • Transference from a Formative Perspective – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2008, 2012
  • Somatic Psychotherapy with Couples – California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) – 2010 – 2013
  • How Clients Learn – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2012
  • Making Boundaries – Hamilton Family Center – 2011
  • Holding Your Ground – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2011
  • Somatic Work with Couples – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2011
  • Embodying Emotion – San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center (SFCAPC) – Talk Line, 2009 – 2011
  • What Bodies Do – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2010
  • How to Use Supervision – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2006, 2010
  • A Working Body: All Staff Retreat – Hamilton Family Center – 2010
  • Evolution and Somatic Psychotherapy – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – July thru September, 2009
  • Working with Child Protective Services – Hamilton Family Center – 2008
  • Being Street Safe – Center for Somatic Psychotherapy – 2008
  • How to Ask Difficult Questions – Hamilton Family Center – 2008

3-day Workshops Co-led with Sonja Sutherland

Tahoe Somatic Retreats, Lake Tahoe, CA

  • The Spirals of Life and Living: Engaging in a Personal Journey through Dimensions of Moving – May 2012
  • Coming Home: Generating a Personal Dimension – October 2012
  • Fulfilling our Potential: 
 Making and Managing Waves to Form a Personal World – May 2011
  • The Dance of Human Evolution: – Joining the Voluntary and Involuntary in the Pulse of Life – October 2011
  • Center, Gravity, Center of Gravity:
  Aligning with Universal Principles, Forming a Personal World – May 2010
  • Contact & Pressure:  
Exploring the Dynamic of Personal and Interpersonal Relationships – October 2010
  • Space, Time and Living Life Fully – October 2009
  • Somatic Dialogues:  
Pushing Limits, Filling Capacity: Appetite and Desire – May 2009
  • Power, Integrity and Personal Authority – May 2008
  • Somatic Dialogues: Forming Our Futures – October 2008
  • Renew, Refine, Transform:  Deepening, Shifting, Shaping How We Form Our Practices – October 2007
  • Opening Vision:
  Exploring Vision and Insight in Movement & Relationships – May 2006
  • Closeness and Distance:  Exploring Our Relationships to the Space Around and Within Us – October 2006
  • Reaching In, Reaching Out
:  Deepening Experience and Expression – May 2005
  • Echoes of Being:  Listening Deeply, 
Relating to Our Experience of Ourselves, Others and the World – September 2005

Education

1991                           MA Clinical Psychology, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio
1983                           BA Economics/Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA

 

Additional Education

  • Dreams and the Body Workshop – Stanley Keleman, 2007 – 2013
  • Taking Charge of Your Life Workshop – Stanley Keleman, 2005 – 2013
  • Professional Group Meetings – Center for Energetic Studies, Stanley Keleman, 2008 – 2013
  • Retreat for Somatic Practice – Stanley Keleman, 2008 – 2013
  • Foundations of Clinical Supervision
  • Supervision:  Advanced Topics, Ethics and Law
  • Supervision Specific to Social Work
  • Law, Ethics and Supervision:  The Use of Authority
  • HIPAA Made Friendly:  Law, Ethics and How to Become Compliant
  • Touch in Psychotherapy:  Advanced Standard of Care, Ethical and Clinical Explorations
  • Body Process, Psychotherapy and Nervous System Energy Work, Jim Kepner, 2006
  • Dual Relationships
  • Fees in Psychotherapy:  Clinical, Ethical and Management Considerations
  • Clinical Supervision:  Obstacles to Learning and Teaching
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Spousal and Partner Abuse

 

Professional Memberships and Associations

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Aikido World Association
Center for Energetic Studies – Professional Group

 

Personal Interests/Hobbies

Aikido
Sports Training and Coaching
Travel
Gardening