Clearly Clinical

Robert Scholz, M.A., LMFT, LPCC, NCC is dually licensed in California as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor and is a Nationally Certified Counselor. Robert has served in many clinical and leadership roles over his twenty plus years working in university mental health and disability services departments, community mental health agencies, private practice, forensic psychology and school-based settings. He maintains an active relationship with Pepperdine University, having served as an Adjunct Professor and trainer to students and staff for over a decade. His current company, The Change Place, offers psychotherapy, training and consultation services to a diverse group of individuals and organizations. His consultation and training clients include community/ forensic mental health agencies, schools/ universities, churches, and professional organizations across many topic areas, including: motivational interviewing, threat assessment/management, sex offender risk assessment and treatment, crisis intervention and postvention, effective responses to traumatic events, raising resilient teens and adolescent substance abuse. He has authored several publications on the topics of motivational interviewing, addiction, counseling men and boys, disaster mental health and effective systemic responses to sexual violence. Robert is also a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), an international organization committed to promoting high-quality MI practice and training. Please visit his website for more information about him and his work.

Dr. Susan Hall is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Hall has published and presented nationally on topics related to positive psychology and trauma, mindfulness and MFT trainees, and psychology, public policy and law, including children/youth exposed to maltreatment. She serves as reviewer for the APA journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. A recipient of Pepperdine’s Howard A. White Award for Excellence in Teaching, she teaches the following MFT courses: theories and techniques of psychotherapy, individual and family development, behavioral principles and theories of learning, and clinical practicum.