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Craig W. Clark, MA, MFT is a California licensed Marriage, Family Therapist with private practice offices in Soquel and Santa Clara, California. He earned his masters degree in Clinical Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He became interested in foster and adoptive populations while an intern with Future Families, where he worked as therapist and case manager serving to support and maintain children and adolescents in therapeutic foster and adoptive homes. In that capacity, he also led parenting groups and taught foster parent licensing classes. In 1999 he helped provide the first series of eight Adoption Clinical Trainings to mental health professionals and social workers in Santa Clara County, California.

Craig’s areas of special interest include working with children and adolescents with histories of abuse, trauma, neglect and/or loss of parent caregivers. Often these children have poor attachment qualities and suffer from symptoms of insecure attachment. In July of 2001 he began training with Daniel Hughes, PhD, the originator of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. This year he completed his fifth year of training with Dr. Hughes. In 2004, he began training in the Theraplay method and has completed training through the level of Advanced Theraplay and Marschak Interaction Method workshops. He is currently under supervision with the Theraplay Institute to complete certification as a Theraplay Therapist.

Craig is Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, where he teaches courses in Child and Adolescent Treatment, Advanced Adolescent Treatment, Theories of Therapeutic Practice, Clinical Application of Attachment Theory and is a clinical supervisor at the JFKU Community Counseling Center, in Sunnyvale, CA.

Craig has presented workshops for Santa Cruz County, DFCS; the Annual Conference of ATTACh; and for JFK University’s continuing education department. He contributed a chapter to an edited book, titled: “Creating Capacity for Attachment: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Trauma-Attachment Disorders”. It was published in July 2005. Craig is a Registered Clinical Member of ATTACh.

Craig is a resident of Soquel, California, where he and his wife have lovingly guided two boys into adulthood.

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