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Stan Wilson spent his childhood years growing up in north Seattle and attended Whitman College in eastern Washington.\u00a0 <\/span>Upon graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and earned his Masters Degree in Psychology.\u00a0 <\/span>Restless after seven consecutive years of college, he spent the next five years working in the music industry, traveling the world as a road manager and sound engineer for several successful rock \u2019n\u2019 roll groups.\u00a0 <\/span>He considers his time spent with rock stars and record producers as his first clinical practicum.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the mid-seventies, Stan returned to graduate school to complete his doctorate in Psychology at California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) in Los Angeles.\u00a0 <\/span>Founded in 1969, CSPP is the nation\u2019s first independent graduate school of professional psychology to receive full accreditation by the American Psychological Association.\u00a0 <\/span>CSPP differs from traditional university graduate programs in that it trains students to become clinicians who provide psychotherapy services, as opposed to academicians who teach or do research. <\/span>Founded in 1972, the California School of Professional Psychology is the schools in psychology differ from traditional university grad<\/span><\/p>\n From 1977 through 1979, Stan trained at the prestigious Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles under the tutelage of internationally known Drs. Robert Resnick and Arnold Beisser.\u00a0 <\/span>He feels blessed to have also received training from most of the founders of Gestalt Therapy, notably Drs. Laura Perls, James Simkin and Erving Polster.\u00a0 <\/span>Stan was attracted to Gestalt Therapy because it is a health and growth-based model that refuses to pathologize the client, in contrast to traditional therapies that try to fix what is assumed to be broken or wrong.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Stan\u2019s first book, Rising Above Shame: Healing Family Wounds to Self-Esteem (1991),<\/em> is in its second printing.\u00a0 <\/span>In the Foreword, best-selling author and theologian John Bradshaw is quoted as saying, \u201cThis book is the clearest I\u2019ve seen on the family systems role in creating the context for toxic shame.\u00a0 <\/span>He goes beyond my own work on shame in several ways.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Stan\u2019s second book (also enjoying a second printing), Qi Gong for Beginners: Eight Easy Movements for Vibrant Health (1997),<\/em> introduces readers to the ancient art of balancing and strengthening one\u2019s life force for healing body, mind and spirit.\u00a0 <\/span>Gravely ill and told he had five years to live in 1980, this book was borne from Stan\u2019s miraculous recovery from lymph cancer.\u00a0 <\/span>He has practiced qi gong twice daily for thirty years and loves to share these gentle, easy-to-learn energy exercises with his clientele.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n