Meet Dr. Cooper-Byram
Dr. Cooper-Byram is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and a Senior Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Psychology Department at California Lutheran University where she specialized in teaching and training future therapists. Along with her years of formal education she has taken many course hours in training with the published and practiced specialists in Individual, Family, and Couple Therapeutic techniques and interventions. To have a successful relationship and/or family one must “know thyself “. The goal of feeling successful in life, relationships, and being a family member is to remember that each of us is wanting to feel safe, secure and connected and cared for.
"Having a good sense of humor will assist in the hard work it takes to keep a marriage and family vital, secure, safe, interesting and loving."
She began her career in building a private practice, as well as doing a one-year fellowship at UCLA extension school of Medicine, in “The Psychosocial Needs of Cancer patients and Their Families.” She worked for the American Cancer Society as the Director of Service and Rehabilitation for five years. There she developed her specialty in counseling breast cancer patients as well as generally counseling cancer patients and their families. During this time, she continued to build her private practice which began in the San Fernando Valley, California. She then moved to Ventura County, California where she opened The Shores Counseling Center, which was a multicultural, interfaith group of independent practitioners. Dr. Cooper-Byram is certified in hypnotherapy, completed two fellowships one in the psychosocial needs of Cancer Patients, and the other in Sex and Sexuality Issues In Working with Couples, both at UCLA Medical School Extension.
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She did a partial MBA program at Pepperdine University where she learned to do coaching and mediation for family businesses, for large corporations, as well as for medical and dental practices. She became an Advanced Adjunct Professor at California State University, Channel Islands, and California Lutheran University, graduate school of psychology where she taught and trained future therapists.
She moved to Newport Beach, California where she continues to work in a private practice and lives with her husband and goldendoodle. Along with an “entire village”, she was part of raising her 2 sons and 4 stepchildren to grow up to be competent, curious, and independent adults. Dr. Cooper-Byram has been married for many years and says having a good sense of humor will assist in helping in the hard work it takes to keep a marriage and family vital, secure, safe, interesting and loving.
Education
Ph.D. Psychology, California Graduate Institute (now Chicago School of Psychology), Westwood, California
M.A. Psychology, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California
B.A. Psychology, California State University, San Francisco, California
Fellowship Training in Psychosocial Interventions with Cancer Patients for Healthcare Professionals,
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, California
Certifications
California Clinical Psychology License (PSY 15836)
California Marriage, Family, Child Therapist (M 8183)
California Life Teaching Credential
California Clinical Hypnotherapist
Certificated Mediator – UCLA School of Law – Extension
Certificated Sex Therapist – UCLA School of Medicine – Extension