Professor
BS, University of Michigan
MSW, University of California, Los Angeles
PhD, California Institute for Clinical Social Work
Dr. Grayer has extensive clinical and consultative experience in a variety of settings. She has served as supervisor and administrator in a mental health center and was a clinical associate of the University of Southern California School of Social Work. She has consulted with various social agencies in the greater Los Angeles area and has taught extensively in the U.S. and abroad in the areas of group psychotherapy, trauma, counter-transference, and the therapeutic use of improvisational acting. As a member of the International Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress, she debriefed mental health staff in Turkey following the 1999 earthquake and taught at Hacetteppe University in Ankara. After "9-11" she consulted to and debriefed therapists who were running post-trauma groups in NY; after the L.A. earthquake in ’94 she debriefed staff, faculty, and students at Santa Monica College. She is a former Board member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and is a Board member and Co-Chair of Education and Training for the Los Angeles Group Psychotherapy Society.
In addition to maintaining a private practice in Encino, California, she is a frequent presenter at local, state and national meetings, with special interests in counter transference, self-psychology, group psychotherapy, and trauma theory.
