COVID-19 Update: My practice has moved online. I am safely seeing clients via Zoom.
North Hollywood, CA 91606
About Ali
Education
I earned my doctorate in 2018 in psychology: marriage and family therapy from Ryokan College. My master's degree, also in marriage and family therapy was from Phillips Graduate Institute in 1997. I have done extensive post-doctoral training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) under a slew of highly-respected trainers and the amazng creator of EFT, Dr. Sue Johnson. I have trained and continue to train in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), and in the incomparably successful Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT). I plan to complete the certification process to be an EFT trainer myself one day. My B.A. is in Deaf studies (with an emphasis in the arts & education) from CSUN, as is my CLAD teaching credential. Both my master's thesis and doctoral dissertation were on the subject of treating the family as a system when one member comes out as LGBTQIA++. My internships were at the Los Angeles LGBT Community Services Center and Valley Family Center.
Other fun facts about Ali
- Ali is a trained improvisor, having completed the conservatory at Second City.
- She is proficient in American Sign Language.
- Ali spent many years working as a portrait photographer for children of celebrities.
- Ali has raised two amazing daughters. One is a doula and is in Oregon getting her college degree. And one is a college graduate now living her dream in NY.
- Other than her freshman year of college at UC, Santa Cruz where she took her first Humanistic Psychology class in the middle of a redwood forest, Dr. Ali Dubin has lived in southern CA her entire life.
- Ali won the Jack Bell Distinguished Service Award for her work with children of Lesbian and Gay Parents (COLAGE).
- The Rev. Dr. Ali Dubin is an ordained minister and available to officiate your loving union.