Dr. Lili Goodman Freitas has served on the faculty of the University of Santa Monica since 1990. As a member of the founding faculty for the Counseling Psychology program, Dr. Freitas participated in the design and co-facilitation of Mores & Values of Cross-Cultural Groups; Treatment of Chemical Dependency; Values, Ethics, and Law; and Responding to the Needs of Aging.  In addition, she is a member of the founding faculty for the Consciousness Health and Healing Program (CHH) and the Soul-Centered Leadership Program.

Dr. Freitas was on faculty and served as the Dissertation Director and Director of Student Evaluation at the Institute of Imaginal Studies in Petaluma, California.  She was formerly a full-time faculty member in Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California, where she served as the Psychology and Consciousness Specialization Coordinator and Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts.  She has also taught in the Graduate School of Education at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Temple University in Philadelphia.

She holds a Ph.D. in Folklore-Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied the relationship between storytelling and healing, and the process of self-legitimation and intuition in alternative healing practices. She also holds a Doctorate of Spiritual Science (D.S.S.) from Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy where she studied the process of Attunement to Spirit. She holds a M.S.S.A. in social work, specializing in Health and Gerontology, from Case Western Reserve University’s Mandell School, where she received the Administration on Aging Training grant, a M.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.  She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Wesleyan University.

Dr. Freitas is Rotary District 5130 Scholarship Chair and District Peace Fellow Chair. She is also a member of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers. In her practice, she supports couples preparing for marriage, and serves as a wedding officiant throughout the greater San Francisco Bay area.  In her spare time, along with her husband Greg, she enjoys traveling, volunteering with the Rotary International Youth Exchange program and the Rotary Peace Fellows program, gardening, renovating their 100 year old house, singing, and playing the fiddle and cello into the wee hours of the night.