Director and Faculty

David Vaughan
Instructor

Phone: (651) 293-8167
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.