Curriculum Vitae
CLAY WATKINS, M.A., LMFT
P.O. Box
271, Arroyo Grande, CA 93421 (805)
546-2656 Fax: (805) 473-4734 clay@villagecounseling.net
www.villagecounseling.net
1993 Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology;
Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
Pepperdine
University Graduate School of Psychology Malibu, CA
1982 Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies;
Emphasis in Psychology
University
of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
2000 Present Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist
California
Board of Behavioral Sciences, License Number MFC37239
2002 2006 Licensed Continuing Education
Provider
California
Board of Behavioral Sciences, License Number PCE 2476
11/00
Present Licensed Marriage and
Family Therapist, Director
Village
Counseling Center Private Practice Arroyo Grande, CA
Provide outpatient solution-focused brief therapy for families,
couples and individuals; personal coaching services for adult professionals
Conditions treated: Mood
disturbances, anxiety, marital and parenting difficulties, PTSD,
child and spousal abuse
Providing training
seminars for therapists in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Directing operations for full-service counseling center with three
offices
6/02 5/04
Family Custody Evaluator
San Luis
Obispo County Supreme Court Family Mediation Services San Luis Obispo, CA
Performing family custody assessments involving contacting disputing
divorcing
parents, Child Welfare Services, law
enforcement agencies, collating and
summarizing information in reports to County
Superior Court
Santa Maria
Valley Youth & Family Center Santa Maria, CA
Provided in-home
counseling and parenting training for families at-risk for having their
children placed outside the home
Client population: Children from preschool
through late teens, adult parents
Weekly meetings with Santa Barbara County Mental Health, CPS,
Public Health, Probation and Healthy Start to coordinate services
9/92
10/97 Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, Director of Operations
Century
Counseling Center West Los Angeles, CA
Provided outpatient solution-focused brief and family therapy for
families, couples and individuals
Coordinated office operations for a counseling center with 35
therapists
Performed insurance billing and bookkeeping for the Clinical
Director
Researched and resolved Medi-Cal and Medicare billing
problems
7/07
Present Part-Time Lecturer Psychology and Child Development
California Polytechnic State University, College of Psychology and Child Development
San Luis
Obispo, CA
Creating and teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses
covering a variety of clinical and research-based subjects in the
areas of psychology and child development
8/02
12/02 Associate Faculty Prenatal through Adolescent
Development
Allan
Hancock College-Department of Early Childhood Studies Santa Maria, CA
Taught undergraduate students in a semester 3-unit community
college course transferable for university level credit
Created class syllabus, instructional plans, tests and taught
Instructed students regarding research, theory and parenting of
children from prenatal to
adolescence
8/95
Present Seminar Trainer
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Los
Angeles San Luis Obispo, CA
Providing training seminars for therapists in Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy
Seminars provided to
therapists at Santa Barbara County Department of Mental Health,
San Luis Obispo County Department of Mental Health, Santa Maria
Youth & Family Center,
San Luis Counseling
Center, Century Counseling Center
12/00 12/02 Instructor STOP Domestic Violence
Treatment Program, COPE Co-Parenting Training San Luis Obispo and Santa
Barbara Counties Supreme Court Family Mediation Services
San Luis
Obispo and Santa Maria, CA
Co-teaching STOP, a weekly
three-hour class providing behavioral and cognitive strategies to domestic violence
victims and perpetrators to assist them in reducing or eliminating domestic
violence incidence in the home
Co-teaching COPE, a weekly
three-hour class providing parenting strategies to divorcing parents to assist
them in reducing the affects of the divorce process on their children
7/01
12/02 Program Coordinator/Trainer Foster Care, Kinship Care,
Independent Living Programs
Allan Hancock
College Santa Maria, CA
Coordinated 200 hours per
year of ongoing foster parent training to assist foster parents in fulfilling
annual State licensing requirements
Coordinated life skills training for older
foster teens to assist their successful transition out of the foster care
system into adulthood
2/02 Seminar
Trainer Solution-Focused Foster Parenting Strategies
Annual
Conference for California Foster and Kinship Care Education Program Coordinators
San Francisco, CA
Taught foster parent educators how to teach foster parents to utilize solution-focused strategies
in parenting foster children
Prenatal through Adolescent Development
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Overview
Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy Cross-Cultural Issues in Adoption
Solution-Focused Parenting Strategies Successful Parenting for Grandparents
Conflict Resolution with Teens Confronting Stress and Anxiety
Increasing Self-Esteem in Children Teen Drug and Alcohol Prevention
Foster Parenting and Kinship Care Co-parenting for Divorced Parents
Responses to Domestic Violence Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress
Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity Reactive Attachment Disorder
Watkins, C.: How Men Think, Information Press. June, 2001
Watkins, C.: Freedom Is Not For The Timid,
Information Press. July, 2001
Watkins, C.: Strategic Parenting; Five Steps to Well-Behaved Kids, ParentGuide
Magazine. April 1997
1998 EMDR Level I Training EMDR Institute, Pacific Grove, CA
Basic training in the use of Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
techniques in the treatment of trauma
2005 EMDR Level II Training EMDR Institute, Pacific Grove,
CA
Advanced training in the use of
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
techniques in the treatment of trauma
1996 Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Certification Century Counseling Center Los Angeles, CA
Comprehensive two-year program covering all aspects of
Solution-Focused Treatment.
Training included weekly instruction,
supervision group and videotaped one-way mirror
clinical practice with clients
1989
1992 Senior Computer Systems Analyst / Team Leader
McDonnell
Douglas Corporation Long Beach, CA
1986
1989 Computer Systems Analyst
1983
1986 Computer Programmer
2004
2006 Board Member, Membership Committee Chair, Arroyo Grande Chamber
of Commerce
Arroyo Grande, CA
2004
Present Member in Good Standing, Tri-Counties Better Business Bureau
San Luis
Obispo-Santa Barbara-Ventura Counties, CA
2001
Present Member in Good Standing, California Association of Marriage
& Family Therapists
San Diego, CA
2001
2002 Past Program Director, California Association of Marriage
& Family Therapists
Central Coast
Chapter San Luis Obispo, CA
2002
Present Member in Good Standing and Past Club President, Rotary Club International
Arroyo Grande
Chapter Arroyo Grande, CA
2002
2004 Board Member, Alpha Pregnancy Counseling and Family Support
Center
San Luis Obispo,
CA