E-Mail: guanipa@mail.sdsu.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling and School Psychology.
Specialties: Couple and Family Therapy, Multicultural Counseling
(Cross Psychology, Group Psychotherapy with Diverse Population &
Intermarriage) & Health Psychology.
I was born and raised in Coro, a small town in the state of
Falcón, along the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, on the
continent of South America. I attended private schools run by nuns
from kindergarten to high school. I was an "A" student who always did
the right thing. Until high school, when I went through "my social
reformer" phase. Ever since I can remember I have loved helping
people so I decided to study Counseling Psychology at Zulia
University. Upon graduation I started my university career as a
professor there. As my career advanced I also picked up a philosophy
degree. Then I won a government scholarship to study in Canada and I
choose McGill University, for its reputation as a world class center
for higher education, and received my M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees. During
my second degree I followed a postgraduate training program at the
Argyle Institute, an AAMFT accredited program in Multicultural
Marriage and Family Therapy in Montreal. Working with families and
couples was so exciting that upon graduation I developed my own
private practice in three languages (Spanish, English and French). At
the Institute I did double duties as the chairman of first the
multicultural and then the research department. After having
established the research rules and regulation for the ARGYLE
Institute the lure of the academic world became strong again. This
led me to San Diego and a position at the SDSU. Department of
Counseling and School Psychology. I specialize in Child, Marriage,
and Family Counseling and am currently directing the Individual
and Family Counseling Clinic.
Presently I am teaching three courses in the Child, Marriage and Family Counseling Program:
I have a passion for these courses and they give me an opportunity to
keep in touch with the community and to get to know the SDSU
community. I am at this very moment putting the finishing touch to a
journal article to be submitted for publication. I am also occupied
with internship placements, community services, presentations,
conferences and meetings. I feel very blessed to have all these
opportunities, to be both productive and to be able to contribute to
this great society of ours. I am committed to the mission to help
marital and family therapists to become good clinicians and
researchers, and multiculturally aware professionals.
I enjoy teaching and doing presentations, so if you need a motivated
and trained speaker please don't hesitate to contact me. My
repertoire is very broad and includes: multicultural training, family
and marital therapy and health psychology. I look forward to
opportunities to get in touch with families, couples, and parents in
the community. Additionally, I can do presentations in English,
Spanish or French. You can either call me or e-mail
me. I will be very glad to hear from you.
My hobbies include playing with my computer, surfing the net,
answering my e-mail, listening to music while I drive to work, and
doing community presentations. I enjoy skiing, swimming, playing
tennis, camping and cheering on my son during his ice hockey game. By
the way, I love my husband and my son. They are the light of my life.
I also love to travel, so if you need a guest speaker for your
institution in my areas of expertise, I would love to visit you.
Please feel free to e-mail
or call.
My current pet project is an exploration into telecommunications and
the role that it can play in teaching, in community outreach and in
providing counseling services. I am working with Linda Woods Hyman
from Pacific Bell
Education First to create a website called Amigos.
We will provide information resources and special topics of interest
to diverse populations and youth. We are using ISDN videoconferencing
to reach out to parents, students and/or teachers on topics that they
are interested in. Telecommunications provides a whole world of
real-time interactive opportunities for participants.
My latest project is the development of an instrument to evaluate
multicultural issues in clinical supervision "The EMIS". I am in the
process of validating this instrument. If you are a supervisor of a
supervisee in any counseling or marriage and family therapy program
or in private practice, I would like to invite you to answer this
questionnaire, if you have any questions
please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for all your
cooperation.
Last updated on March 27, 1998.
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