Craig W. Clark, MFT
Biography
Craig W. Clark, MA, MFT is a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist with private practice offices in Capitola and Santa Clara, California. He earned his masters degree in Clinical Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. 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. For over a decade, Craig has worked with foster and adoptive families and children.
His areas of special interest include working with parents who are caring for children and adolescents with histories of abuse, trauma, neglect and/or loss of caregivers. He also works with adults who feel the effects of insecure attachment in their adult relationships.
Craig is Associate Professor at John F. Kennedy University, College of Professional Studies http://www.jfku.edu. He has presented workshops for Santa Cruz County DFCS, the Annual Conference of ATTACh, Santa Cruz Chapter of California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, and JFK University’s continuing education department.
Craig has authored chapters for two books, “Creating Capacity for Attachment: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Trauma-Attachment Disorders” (July, 2005); and “The Developmental Psychotherapy Casebook”, (March 2011).
He has provided consulting services to San Francisco and Monterey Bay area agencies including Kinship Center’s AFTER Program and Center for Healthy Development.
Craig is a Certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist http://www.dyadicdevelopmentalpsychotherapy.org, and has completed training through the level of Advanced Theraplay® and Marschak Interaction Method with the Theraplay® Institute http://theraplay.org. He is a Registered Clinician with Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children (ATTACh) http://www.attach.org.
Craig is a clinical member of Santa Cruz Chapter of California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists Santa Cruz Chapter CAMFT. He has lived in the Monterey Bay Area since 1973, where he and his wife have lovingly guided two boys into adulthood.