Dr. Ron Valle

License No.	State
PSY8615	California

In over 40 years as a psychologist, I have specialized in helping clients with anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain, and those challenged by grieving and dying. I offer an approach designed to help each individual quiet their mind and body so they may discover the sources of imbalance that lie beneath the painful physical and emotional symptoms that they are experiencing. Clients are encouraged throughout the therapy process to use their time of distress as a spiritually auspicious time to increase their self-understanding by opening to the deeper dimensions of themselves.

I am devoted to helping clients integrate the process of personal development and spiritual awakening into their lives. A long-time practitioner and teacher of meditation, I have developed an Integrated Therapy Program for Transforming Stress and Pain while serving as the director of an outpatient university hospital pain clinic.

I am the author or editor of 6 published books including The Changing Faces of Therapy: Evolving Perspectives in Clinical Practice and Assessment, and Opening to Dying and Grieving: A Sacred Journey. I currently serve as director of the Awakening Therapy Center in Discovery Bay, CA and as staff psychologist in several assisted-living and skilled nursing facilities in the Bay Area.

Full details of my clinical and academic background can be found on my website at ronvalleonline.com.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Psychologist in private practice

1984-present - California Licensed Psychologist/#PSY8615

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Professor of Psychology from 1974-Present

2012-2018 Full Professor/Clinical Psychology Program
American School of Professional Psychology
Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area, Alameda, CA

Degrees/Certifications

• Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Doctoral Clinical Internship/Training
• Biofeedback Certification Institute of America - Certified Practitioner