PhD

Jerome C. Crichton serves as an adjunct professor at Alliant University and Diablo Valley Community College, Pleasant Hill. He is an educator, theologian, and professional musician.

Along with Intercultural Awareness Development and Sociocultural Diversity: African American Psychology, he teaches a variety of psychology courses at the undergraduate level. He works as an Organizational Consultant, Pastoral Counselor, and is the founder and President of Every Word Ministries, a community-based ministry. His latest album release (2025), based on research for his African American Psychology class, is entitled, TransAtlantic Journey and is available on Spotify, iTunes, and various streaming services.

Dr. Drexler is a neuropsychologist in group practice and Adjunct Professor at AIU. He is also an Associate Professor at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, where he serves as Director of Academic and Student Affairs, and teaches such courses as Lifespan Development, Cross-Cultural Issues, Clinical Assessment & Treatment Planning, Dying, Death, & Bereavement, and Gerontology Focus courses. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches Individual & Systems Assessment, Individual & Family Psychopathology, and Research Methods, and is Volunteer Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at UCSF, where he teaches in the Brain, Mind, and Behavior course series.  

Dr. Drexler worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) from 2021 through 2023. While with DVA, he served in a number of capacities including as the VA Sierra Nevada Network (VISN 21) Director of Organizational Development and Wellness and Chief Wellbeing Officer and VA VISN 21 Chief Mental Health Officer, and at San Francisco VA Health Care System as Neuropsychologist, Local Psychosocial Rehabilitation Coordinator, Clinical Director of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center, Workplace Violence Prevention Coordinator, Manager for Mental Health Compensation and Pension, Director or Telemental Health, and Geropsychologist. Furthermore, he worked for the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH), Geriatric Services of San Francisco, Telecare Corporation, and Letterman Army Medical Center. He worked in hospice with VA and DPH.

Dr. Drexler completed his Postdoctoral Residency/Fellowship (focusing on neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology) at Laurel Grove Rehabilitation Hospital (Eden Hospital) in Hayward, California, and his internship at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. He received his doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University, Berkeley, in 1988.

B J Davis, PsyD, LAADAC, is an adjunct professor in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), Alliant International University, and a guest lecturer at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Davis received an M.S. in Community Counseling from CSU Sacramento, and a Psy.D. in clinical psychology from Alliant University (CSPP). Dr. Davis is the former Executive Director of Strategies for Change, Substance Abuse, and Co-occurring Disorders Treatment Agency, and past Senior Manager of Training and Clinical Quality at WellSpace Health. He is currently the Executive Director of Sacramento Recovery House residential treatment programs and the owner of Davis Consulting,

Dr. Davis is the author of the 2009 DVD “What is Recovery: A Quality-of-Life Perspective.” In addition to his work at Sacramento Recovery House, Dr. Davis serves as a consultant to the Sacramento AIDS Housing Alliance and is the past vice-chair of the CAADAC Counselor Certification Board. Dr. Davis is considered an excellent motivational speaker and a frequently sought-after lecturer, presenter, and keynote speaker regarding addiction treatment, criminal justice reform, and addressing issues related to diversity. Dr. Davis has provided numerous presentations including the Substance Abuse Research Consortium 42nd Semi-Annual Research-to-Policy meeting on obstacles related to the implementation of evidenced based practices; the American Correctional Association Winter Conference on effective Adult Day Reporting Center reentry strategies; the California DHCS Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Statewide Conference on Addressing the Challenges of Treating Marginalized Populations, the Quebec Expert Service in Severe Behavioral Disorders on “Effective Substance Abuse Strategies for Individuals with Intellectual Disability” and the 2024 CADTP Spring Conference Keynote on using the “Davis Model” to increase the effectiveness of evidenced based curriculum.

Matthew R. Mock, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor with both Clinical Psychology PsyD and PhD Programs at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), Alliant International University (AIU).  As an alumnus, he is proud to have received his PhD, and Master’s degrees from CSPP Berkeley/Alameda. While completing his doctorate decades ago, he served as Director of the Child, Family, and Multicultural Services for the City of Berkeley for 20 years.  

He is currently a Professor of Psychology with the JFK School of Psychology of NU, also located in the Bay Area, and has been a faculty member for four decades. With a passionate commitment to “serving community needs” he has provided trainings, workshops, consultation, and courses in over 40 of California’s 58 counties, nationally as well as internationally.

Dr. Mock was bestowed the Distinguished Career Contributions Award by the Asian American Psychological Association in 2019. During his career, he has also humbly received awards from the California Psychological Association, and the American Family Therapy Academy, among other organizations and entities. 

Libby Pearce, Psy.D., is an Adjunct Professor in the PhD and PsyD Programs at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) of Alliant International University. Libby completed their APPIC-accredited internship in community mental health at Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health & Training Center (The Hume Center), in the Neurobehavioral Evaluation and Partial Hospitalization Programs. Subsequently, they completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the same agency, focusing on providing psychological and neuropsychological assessment for all ages, functional supervision of interns and practicum trainees, and program management.

Since their licensure in 2013, Libby has enjoyed pursuing their passion for multiple areas of clinical psychology including providing psychotherapy, psychological assessment, supervision, and training in different roles and programs at the Hume Center. Libby has taught several assessment courses as an adjunct professor since 2014 and has also worked as an assessment contractor in the juvenile justice system. In their clinical work, they specialize in working with adults, adolescents, and children with complex trauma and dissociation, psychosis, severe mental illness, identity development, and the LGBTQIA+ population.

Libby is dedicated to helping underserved populations, and continued growth and learning through their work with clients, supervisees, students, and colleagues.

Dr. Patrick Miles is a licensed psychologist in California.  He graduated with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Campus.  

Dr. Miles’ professional experience includes clinical and administrative positions working with seriously mentally ill youth and adults in San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS).  His assignments at BHRS included supervising a multidisciplinary assessment team for Adult Services, directing the Quality Improvement Program, and serving as the Assistant Director for seven years until his retirement in 2015.  In these roles, Dr. Miles participated in both County and State level policy development and implementation.  

Dr. Miles’ academic experience includes providing instruction in statistics, psychometrics, and research design for graduate students seeking PhD and PsyD degrees at California School of Professional Psychology from 1994 to the present.  His research interests focus on psychotherapy outcome research, the use of routine outcome monitoring to track progress during the course of psychotherapy, and how new statistical models have made it possible to learn more about mechanisms of change in psychotherapy.

Dr. Jamie Franco (formerly Franco-Zamudio) earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at CSPP and an Associate Professor and Co-Academic Program Director for the PsyD program at National University.

Dr. Franco is dedicated to teaching social justice, developing course content designed to nurture students’ sense of responsibility and encourage advocacy. She has received several awards for her teaching and service, including the Innovative Teaching Award from APA Division 9, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), and the Excellence in Teaching Award from National University. She is also a SPSSI Fellow and a Senior Ford Fellow.

As a first-generation college student, Dr. Franco values education as a transformative force. Her journey from a business major to a psychologist highlights her commitment to the concept of ""person-environment fit,"" which she embraces both personally and professionally.

Beyond academia, Dr. Franco has been actively involved in community service. She has served on the boards of Triangle Speakers, Lifelines Counseling Services, and Prism United, where she was a founding member of the organization dedicated to supporting LGBTQIA+ youth.

I studied the psychology of cognitive and social-emotional development throughout my college career at University of Florida and Arizona State University. I earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Florida in 1998 and earned a master's degree and then a doctorate in psychology from Arizona State University in 2005. I have taught at the college level for 22 years and have published research. I have also worked in administration as a Psychology Department Chair and as Dean of Academics at two universities. Although I’ve studied many areas of psychology, my focus is Cognitive Development--how thinking and learning changes across the lifespan. Given my interest in learning, it is not surprising that I discovered during graduate school that I have a passion for teaching.  

I have become enamored with online education in the past five years, as the use of that tool increases. I’ve taught many psychology courses online and act as a subject matter reviewer of online courses. I’ve enjoyed teaching a graduate level course in Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior for three years now. Research finding links between emotion and cognition is currently a hot area and very interesting work is emerging. I feel that students who aspire to apply their understanding of psychology to intervene in the emotional and cognitive lives of other people need this information as a foundation.

Dr. Zamzam Dini (she/her) is an Assistant Professor and core CFT faculty at the Irvine Campus.  She holds a PhD in Family Social Science, specializing in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Minnesota, and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). Dr. Dini’s research focuses on refugee family systems, seeking to understand the nuanced experiences of the different generations in a given family. Dr. Dini has developed a conceptual model, the Refugee Family Trauma and Adaptation (RFTA) Framework, to contextualize the intergenerational transmission of trauma in refugee family systems.

Dr. Dini employs interdisciplinary research to introduce systemic and relational thinking to increase culturally appropriate research methods and narratives when learning about Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant (RIM) communities, publishing research with scholars from Psychology, Nursing, Sociology, and Communication fields. Dr. Dini’s clinical work primarily focuses on treating chronic and complex PTSD using evidence-based clinical interventions like Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) and Brainspotting. Dr. Dini also works with adolescents, families, and couples, trained in PREPARE/ENRICH and Discernment Counseling.

Dr. Dini emphasizes bridging research and practice by providing workshops on trauma and refugee families to immigrant families, school staff, and providers in the community. Dr. Dini is a NET trainer and has been a keynote speaker and state and national professional organizations.

Dr. Jennifer Cates is a core faculty member in the online MA/PsyD/PhD programs at Alliant International University. She has been teaching, supervising, and engaging in scholarship as a full-time faculty member since 2006. Additionally, she has been practicing as a couple and family therapist since 2002.

She served as the Chair for the Couple and Family Therapy Department at Regis University from 2013 through 2024, and she was a core faculty in the COAMFTE accredited master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy Program from 2010 through 2024. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Central Washington University from 2006 through 2010, where she taught in the couple and family therapy track of a CACREP accredited counseling training program.

Her passion is teaching, supervising, and mentoring students and new professionals to be effective clinicians by increasing their awareness of their own cultural contexts so that they are better able to understand how their own and the cultural contexts of their clients inform the therapeutic process and outcomes.

She has published and presented on topics including white racial identity development, effective methods for integrating cultural context into the therapeutic process, social justice interventions, and supervision and training process and outcomes. An emphasis on cultural context and social justice is integrated into her teaching, supervision, and scholarship.

Caroline Mok, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor in the APA-accredited Clinical Psychology PsyD Program on the Emeryville Campus and first joined Alliant in 2022. Se received her doctorate in 2013 from Palo Alto University, completed her internship at Metropolitan State Hospital in Los Angeles and post-doctoral training at Palo Alto University and Department of Veteran Affairs in Palo Alto and, and stayed at the university for several years as a researcher, program director, and adjunct professor. Dr. Mok received extensive training in psychodiagnostic, neuropsychological, and forensic assessment at Department of Veteran Affairs and on inpatient units at Vacaville Prison and Metropolitan State Hospital. Dr. Mok continued her assessment practice in Berkeley, California, providing individual and group psychotherapy and assessment for the local community, surrounding schools, and attorneys in need of an expert witness in civil litigation proceedings. 

Dr. Osback received her undergraduate degree from Washington State University. Her undergraduate training included sociology and psychology, inspiring her interest in systems, education, and advocacy. Dr. Osback graduated from Alliant's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in 2021 and completed her post-doctoral training at Fresno City College's Psychological Services Center. She currently teaches full-time in the Fresno Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and works in a community private practice part-time as a psychological assistant. Her clinical experience and research interests include Gestalt psychotherapy, issues in supervision, ethics, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, ADHD, anxiety, and trauma.