Christine E. Dickson is an American clinical psychologist. For over 20 years, she has specialized in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. She is best known for being a psychotherapist in California and appearing as a featured guest on Tri-Valley Community Television (TV30) where she provides self-help advice on topics such as mindfulness, work-family balance, marital happiness, compassion, trauma recovery, and more. Her psychotherapy practice is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Education Dickson received her B.A. with honors in Psychology and English Literature from Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey in 1996, her M.A. with highest distinction in Human Behavior and Organizational Psychology from Kean College of New Jersey in 1998, and a Dual PhD in Clinical Psychology and Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in 2003. Between 2003 - 2007, Dickson presented portions of her doctoral dissertation on employee perceptions of family responsibilities discrimination at 17 national and international conferences including the II International Work and Family Conference at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Career In 2004, after obtaining her California license to practice as a clinical psychologist, Dickson worked for Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters in San Francisco. At this job, she helped employees recover from trauma after bank robberies and coached managers to effectively respond to critical incidences in the workplace such as employee death, bomb threats, robberies, and employee violence. After Wells Fargo, she went on to work at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation where she helped male and female clients recover from their childhood trauma, and the traumas they created for themselves and others as a result of their crimes. Dickson left the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2011 and went on to open her own private practice in Pleasanton where she helps pre-teens, teenagers, and adults. She also provides critical incident stress debriefing and trauma recovery counseling to Alameda County Police, BART Police and AC Transit employees. Trauma recovery is only one of her many specialties, but it is one that Dickson holds close to her heart. Currently, Dickson is a psychotherapist who works online and in person providing individual therapy, couples counseling, and executive coaching. Dickson also focuses on corporate work, more specifically the business and legal cases for workplace flexibility. She has provided educational seminars on the benefits of workplace flexibility to companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Dupont, Prudential, Chevron, BASF Corporation, and