Johanna Jenkins has served on the faculty of the University of Santa Monica since the inception of the Counseling Psychology Program in 1992.  As a member of the founding faculty for this unique program, Johanna participated in the design and co-facilitation of Counseling Children and Adolescents and Human Sexuality in the Therapeutic Context.  She also served for ten years as Director of the Counseling Psychology Program.  She is responsible for the original design, ongoing evolvement, and co-facilitation of the Supervised Practicum, the third and completion year of the CP program.  In 2007-2008, Johanna joins the faculty of Consciousness, Health and Healing.

Licensed in the state of California as a Clinical Social Worker, Johanna has been in private practice since 1984, working with individual adults, children, families, and couples.  Within the framework of Spiritual Psychology, her specialties include the mother/infant dyad, opening the creative channel, and dreamwork.

Johanna’s early experience includes ten years of pre-school teaching, during which time she founded and administered The Open Center for Children in Somerville, Massachusetts.  In 1986, as the respondent to Virginia Clower, M.D., in a symposium on Female Psychosexual Development, she presented a paper, “The Role of Anger in Female Individuation.”  In conjunction with other professionals in Seattle, Washington, Johanna developed and implemented The Parent/Infant Study Group, a low-fee preventative program for infants at risk.  For three years, she served as a consultant at Reiss-Davis Child Study Center.  In 1992, as an outgrowth of 20 years of work with her own dreaming process, she developed and facilitated The Dream Workshop.

Johanna holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Washington and completed a three-year training in Child Therapy with the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute.  She is a Clinical Member of the California Society for Clinical Social Work and an Associate Member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. 

Johanna’s grown daughter, Emily Jenkins, has published a number of books for children and teens and is raising her own daughter in New York City.  Johanna conducts a private practice in Santa Monica, California, where she continues to develop her work with deep healing, dreams, and creativity.