Therapist Biography
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Michael Brennan MFT, CBT
3288-2 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92104
Office: (619) 282-6911
E-mail: morgoneb@sbcglobal.net

Office Hours: TBD
Specializes in:
• Quality of Life
• Relational Struggle/Enhancement
• Intimacy
• Sexuality
• Developmental Trauma

Professional Associations:
Southern California Institute for
   Bioenergetic Analysis

Accepting New Clients: Yes




Professional Certifications:

Michael Brennan has been active in Body-based therapy for 30 years, a member of SDIBA for20 years, a licensed Marriage&Family Therapist for 13 years, a Certified Bioenergetic Analyst for 12 years, was a Co-Founder of and on the Southern California Bioenergetic Conference Steering Committee for 10 years and has been on the Boarrd of Directors of SDIBA for 6 years. He has conducted numerous workshops in the U.S. and Europe.

As a Bioenergetic Analyst, my overriding commitment to my clients, whether they be an individual, a couple, a family or other group, is to facilitate the regaining of their ability to be more sensitive to their pain and pleasure, emotionally, physically and psychologically. This always involves assisting my client in decreasing the fear , mostly unconscious, of one's pain and pleasure and the accompanying emotions.

For everyone I have known, personally and professionally, one's circumstances from early on has forced or persuaded one to "toughen up" to get through those circumstances. This construction of a tightened-up, toughened-up way of organismic being sets in motion a dynamic, in the body, mind, and spirit, that restricts the motility and vulnerability required to create and maintain a deeply satisfying way of life for the rest of one's life.

Thus, the journey to becoming more able to create and experience the quality of life one needs in order to thrive, rather than survive, in life, demands that we become more vulnerable and accessible to our pains and pleasures, past and present, not less. Becoming more available to, and thereby, less afraid of our whole organismic experience, we become more responsive to ourselves and others. The denial of our experience, our reactions and the delay in our expressing them is decreased. Our ability to accept and allow the other's experience and expression also increases because we are less afraid of human responses to human circumstances. Our ability to express and listen, i.e., communicate, improves and thus, quality contact with loved ones increases the pleasure we experience in life and decreases the pain that comes from a "toughened up" way of dealing with the people and circumstances of our life.

To me, Bionergetic Analysis is an approach to the human struggle that offers us one of the best chances to recover and uncover our innate organismic ability to surrender to and contend with all that life, as a human, has to offer, the painful and the pleasurable. To increase one's ability to love and be loved, to work, to play, to thrive is a life-affirming venture I am pleased and honored to be involved in.

Bioenergetic Therapists have met all of the licensing requirement as Mental Health Providers in their state of licensure. In addition, they have completed a rigorous four year post-graduate course of study in Bioenergetic Analysis. They are specifically trained to work with the relationship between the mind, emotions, and the body. Additional hours of supervision qualify a graduate for certification as a Bioenergetic Therapist (CBT).

Bioenergetic Therapists have faced their own journey of self-exploration and offer support and encouragement to you as you face your own path to awareness and growth.

Certified Bioenergetic Therapists    San Diego

Garet Bedrosian  LCSW, CBT
333 Olive St.
San Diego, CA 92103
President and IIBA faculty
Office: (619) 295-8002
Fax: (619) 295-8098
E-mail: garet@garetbedrosian.com
Website: www.garetbedrosian.com
Terri Martin LCSW, CBT
333 Olive Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Local Faculty and Faculty Chair
Office: (619) 518-1229
E-mail: terrimartin@cox.net
Michael Brennan MFT, CBT
3288-2 El Cajon Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92 104-1430
Office: (619) 282-6911
E-mail: morgoneb@sbcglobal.net
Tarra Stariell MFT, CBT
333 Olive Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Office: (760) 294-2150
Fax: (760) 294-2151
E-mail: tarra@cox.net
Paula Buckley MFT, CBT
PO Box 5164
San Diego, CA 92165
Office: (619) 525-3498
Jan Parker PhD, MFT, CBT
12929 Pomerado Road
Poway, CA 92064
Office: (858) 679-1558
Fax: (858) 642-8417
E-mail: j.parker@cox.net
Michael Kimmel MA, MSW, LCSW
5100 Marlborough Drive
San Diego, CA 92116
Office: (619) 955-3311
E-mail: beyondtherapy@cox.net
Website: www.lifebeyondtherapy.com
Laura Partridge MFT
327 South Ivy Street
Escondido, CA 92025
Office: (760) 470-4055
Fax: (760) 294-2151
E-mail: laura.mft@live.com
Diana Guest MFT, CBT
1767 Grand Avenue, Suite 4
San Diego, CA 92109
IIBA Faculty and Training Coordinator
Office: (858) 336-3740
Fax: (858) 273-9410
E-mail: dguestcbt@me.com
Website: www.dianaguest.com
Vincentia Schroeter PhD, MFT, CBT
327 South Ivy Street
Escondido, CA 92025
IIBA Faculty
Office: (858) 259-2480
E-mail: vincentiaschroeter@gmail.com
Website: vincentiaschroeterphd.com
Barbara Thomson PhD, MFT, CBT
Encinitas, CA 92024
Local Faculty
Office: (760) 944-7448
E-mail: thomsonscorpio@yahoo.com
Maggie Locke MFT, CBT
4506 Adair
San Diego, CA 92107
Office: (619) 222-4743
E-mail: maggielocke@aol.com