Steve Peltier is a nationally recognized psychologist with strong ties to behavioral health providers in major market areas. Dr. Peltier earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota . He continues to operate a private practice in St. Paul and was previously the director of professional affairs for the Minnesota Psychological Association (MPA). He designed the M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy program at Saint Mary’s, and has also established a marriage and family therapy program at the University of Virginia - Charlottesville . He has taught courses in family therapy, family theory, sex therapy, research design and human resources.

 Dr. Sara Wright, Assistant Program Director and Practicum Coordinator

Phone: (612) 728-5117

swright@smumn.edu

Sara Wright is a Licensed Psychologist and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. She is a state and national leader in the Marriage & Family Therapy field, having served as President of the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT) and as Secretary of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). She is also the recipient of the Rosemary Dummer Award "for outstanding contributions to marriage and family life in Minnesota." Dr. Wright earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and her Masters and Bachelor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published articles on couples and family issues in professional journals and books and in popular magazines, and has presented on couples and family issues at national conferences. Dr. Wright maintains a private clinical practice in Saint Paul.
  

Dr. Timothy Balke, Assistant Professor

Phone: (952) 285-5533

Email: tbalke@mn.rr.com

Tim Balke is a Licensed Psychologist in private practice in Edina, where he provides individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults.  Tim’s areas of expertise include adoption, anger management, anxiety, depression, divorce/uncoupling and blending of families, domestic violence, fathering, grief and loss, intimacy, men’s issues, relationship building, and substance abuse. Tim has worked in community mental health clinics, a hospital psychiatric unit, a runaway youth center, and at the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota.  Tim has lectured on several different topics to a wide variety of audiences, including travels to Russia and Moldova where he trained social service providers on developing and implementing a domestic violence program.  Also, Tim teaches courses to graduate students at Argosy University on Systems Theory and Therapy and at St. Mary’s University on Advanced Family Therapy.

Tim has an M.A. degree in Counseling Psychology and a Ph.D. degree in Family Social Science.  For four years, Tim was a research assistant on the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project.  Tim did his master’s thesis on families with biological and adoptive children, and he conducted his dissertation research in New Zealand where he studied adoption members’ perceptions of birthfathers’ roles in adoption.

Michelle Craveiro, Instructor

Phone: (651) 450-1501

Email: MAcLMFT@aol.com

Ginny D'Angelo, Assistant Professor

Phone: (952) 432-0043

Email: ginda4@earthlink.net 

Ginny D'Angelo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.  She earned her Master's degree from Iowa State University and a post-master's certificate from the Menninger Institute of Topeka, KS.  She is an approved supervisor with the MN licensing boards in MFT, SW, and BHT.  Ginny is a clinical member of AAMFT and an AAMFT approved supervisor.  She has been active in the MAMFT on the Elections Committee and the Spring Conference Committee; she has served on the board as Secretary and currently as Training Coordinator.  Ginny has been recognized by MAMFT with the Colleague's Award and by Saint Mary's University as an Outstanding Faculty Member.  She co-directed a community-based MFT training program prior to coming to Saint Mary's where she has now been traching for over fifteen years.  At present, Ginny is immensely enjoying conducting the MFT practicum class where she gets to develop close working relationships with a small group of students in their practicum experiences.  Through her private practice, BOTH/AND Resources, she sees clients, provides supervision for licensure and for prospective supervisors, and offers consultation.

Diane Dovenberg, Instructor 

Diane has been a therapist working with individuals, couples, families and groups for over 40 years.  Since completing her MSW in 1962 she has worked continuously in the area of family and child guidance at the Institute for Juvenile Research in Illinois, the Wilder Child Guidance Clinic and in private practice.  To augment her education, she obtained a Marriage and Family Therapy License and became an AAMFT and State Board Approved Supervisor.  She has provided training, supervision, and consultation to many other therapists.  She has worked with families in the Southeast Asian Community as the Manager of Wilder's Southeast Asian Social Adjustment Program for six years.  She retired from the Wilder Foundation in 2000 and is currently in private practice providing therapy, supervision and consultation.    

Dr. Susan Jack, Assistant Professor

Phone: (612) 343-1616

Email: jack5036@aol.com

Susan Jack earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota Family Social Science Program in 1999 and her Master’s in Social Work degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia in 1980.  She has a private practice in which she works with both individuals and couples.  Previously, she was affiliated with Northland Therapy Center for four years and the University of Minnesota Medical Center’s Adult Psychiatry Clinic for 20 years. Dr. Jack taught marriage and family therapy to psychiatry residents at the university, and has been an adjunct professor in the Saint Mary’s University Marriage and Family Therapy Program since 2001. 

John Jankord, Instructor

Phone: (612) 532-7779

Email: jjankord@mn.rr.com

Dr. Carole (Nickey) Larson, Associate Professor

Phone: (952) 929-8432

Email: nickeylarson@msn.com

Nickey Larson, Psy.D., LP, MA, LMFT, LADC started her career in the addictions field thirty years ago. She is an alumnus of Saint Mary's University and began teaching there after graduating in 1984. She received her Doctorate in Counseling Psychology at the University of St. Thomas. Currently she is an adjunct Associate Professor and teaches in three departments at Saint Mary's University: Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Human Development in the areas of addictions, ethics, marriage and family theory and therapy, and practicum supervision. She is in private practice in Edina, offers clinical supervision, and one day a week she consults at Guest House Treatment Center for Catholic clergy and seminarians where she provides lectures and psychotherapy to residents in treatment. In these thirty years, Nickey is grateful to have had the opportunities to have train, consult, and provide therapy around the United States and in Europe.

Jeanne McIntee, Instructor

Phone: (651) 894-7722

Email: jeannemcintee@comcast.net

 has been a clinical therapist in private practice since 2000.  Her areas of special interest are dissociative, anxiety and panic disorders, grief and loss, PTSD, complex transitional shifts, chemical dependency and recovery issues, spirituality and the healing process associated with personal growth.  Jeanne's clinical training includes the completion of a four-year post-graduate training program in Bowen Natural Family Systems Theory provided by the faculty of the Georgetown Family Medical Center.  Jeanne continued an additional four years of study with faculty members.  She completed both the Professional Training and Advanced Training Programs in Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine provided by the Center for Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine in Washington, D.C.  Jeanne is a member of the Parent Advisory Board for Palliative Care Initiative at Children's Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis, and is providing clinical social work and hospital social work for Healtheast, St. Joseph's Hospital and Aseracare Hospice/Home Health Agency.  Jeanne is a LMFT and LICSW in the state of Minnesota.

Steven McManus, Assistant Professor 

Phone: (763) 442-4434

Email: stevemac@koppelman.us

Steve McManus received his Master of Science in MFT degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Steve has worked in the areas of chemical dependency, adult and juvenile corrections, and in-home therapy. Steve currently teaches part-time and has a private practice in Golden Valley. Steve is an approved AAMFT and State of Minnesota supervisor. He has taught classes in assessment, family theories, ethics, in-home therapy, supervision, and family therapy. He is
currently the President-Elect of the MAMFT, and will become President in January 2008 for a two-year term.

Dianne Meixner, Assistant Professor

Phone: (651) 287-0846

Email: dlmeixner@sbcglobal.net

Pang Foua Rhodes, Instructor

Email: yangrhodes@hotmail.com

Dr. Kenneth Stewart, Assistant Professor

Phone: (612) 861-0366

Email: smilingscot@comcast.net

Ken Stewart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Psychologist and has over 30 years experience in clinical practice. He has published articles in a number of professional journals and was on the editorial board of the Journal of Systemic Therapies for many years. He has been active on the Board of the Minnesota Association for Marriage and
Family therapy for the past 10 years and is currently the President. He has also served as the Newsletter Editor and Desktop Publisher. He has taught courses in family therapy, family frameworks, basic counseling skills and supervision. He is a also a writer and photographer in his spare time. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in family social
science. His masters' degree is from Boston University School of Theology and his undergraduate degree is from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

David Vaughan, Instructor

Phone: (651) 293-8167

Email: dvaughanmn@earthlink.net

David Vaughan has been a practicing social worker for over 30 years. He received his Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of Kansas in 1980, and moved to the Twin Cities that same year. He has extensive practice experience in the field of psychiatric crisis intervention, working with chronically mentally ill adults, doing home-based family therapy and for the past 15 years working as a child and family therapist with Health Partners. He employs a wide range of intervention approaches and strategies including family therapy, hypnosis, narrative therapy, Thought Field Therapy, and play therapy in working with children and families, multiple presenting issues including anxiety, depression, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, elimination disorders, adoption issues, autism, and problems stemming from divorce and seperation in families. He is licensed in Minnesota as a LICSW and a LMFT.
 

Dr. Brian Zamboni, Assistant Professor

Email: bzamboni@umphysicians.umn.edu