Background

Dr. Melissa Dubin, Ph.D is a licensed clinical psychologist with over twenty years of counseling experience and training. She offers a compassionate and holistic approach to the healing and transformation of psychological problems; integrating Western models of psychotherapy and along with Holistic systems of healing that address the body, mind and spirit. She is the founder of Earth Light Foundation and Earth Light Institute.

Her work has taken her to both in & out-patient hospital settings, community, university and family health centers and schools, including San Francisco General Hospital, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Alta Bates Hospital, San Francisco County Department of Public Health, San Mateo School district. North Penisula Family Alternatives, Integral Counseling Center, and the University of Calgary Counseling Centre.

Along side her clinical training and practice she has also had the opportunity to study the wisdom traditions of Buddhism, Shamanism, and scared healing arts, and brings a rich depth of spiritual knowledge to the counseling process.

Dr. Dubin is currently in private practice in San Francisco and Petaluma, California and is in the process of developing Earth Light Institute.

      Additionally, she is fluent in conversational Spanish.