Vijay Shankar, MBA, Psy.D.

Dr. Shankar has been trained by and co-facilitated workshops with Dr. Steven C. Hayes, the founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
He is listed in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) website as a trainer for other therapists in ACT.
He has completed the Teacher Development Intensive (TDI) program in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Center for Mindfulness, UMass Medical School, in Massachussets.
He has been trained in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy at the Albert Ellis Institute, New York.
He has received Advanced Supervision in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy at BFTC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He has extensive training in Gestalt therapy.

Dr. Shankar has been a speaker at the Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, California.
He has taught at the World Conferences on ACT, RFT, and the New Behavioral Psychology, at Linköping, Sweden and the ACT Summer Institutes at Reno and Philedelphia.
He has presented at the Oregon Psychological Association Spring Conferences, at community organizations, and at local graduate psychology programs.

Member of The Anxiety Disorders Clinic.
Founder/Director of LifeQual LLC.
Current member and past Treasurer of the Oregon Psychological Association.
Past member of the Pacific University Board of Trustees.
Current member of the Advisory Board of the Pacific University School of Professional Psychology.

Anne B Shankar, M.Sc., MSW, LCSW

Ms. Shankar is a licensed clinical social worker. Her areas of interest are anxiety and mood disorders, marital/relationship conflict and life transitions.

Ms. Shankar has participated in several intenive weekend workshops conducted by Steven Hayes, Kelly Wilson and Robyn Walser.

She has co-facilitated a number of weekend intensive ACT workshops with Vijay Shankar.
She has been trained in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy at the Albert Ellis Institute, New York and also received training at the Institute of Multigenerational Family Therapy, in Portland, Oregon.

Ms. Shankar practices at The Anxiety Disorders Clinic and is a Director of LifeQual LLC.

She is a past board member of the William Temple House, an agency providing mental health counseling, social services and pastoral care for low income working families in the Portland, Oregon area.

Ms. Shankar attended the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine (MBSR) residential retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn at Watsonville, California.

Ms. Shankar has a Masters in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University in New York.

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