Pam Paulson MA, LMFT, RDT

Pam Paulson MA, LMFT, RDT moved to Los Angeles after retiring from a 28-year career in social work from Orange County Social Services.  She received her master’s in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA.  She has been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1996.  She worked as a Senior Social Worker in the Emergency Response program, Adoptions (12 years), and when she became a supervisor, the Domestic Abuse Services Unit (DASU) and finally as the Family to Family Assistant Coordinator.  While in the F2F program she assisted in developing the parent mentor program and chaired a committee that put on a yearly conference on Intimate Partner Violence.  While serving on the Eliminating Disproportionality and Disparity (ERDD) committee, she directed and co-created a dramatic presentation on White privilege which was taken to community groups, police, judges and was presented before the film “Wigger” at the Beverly Hills Premiere. 

Pam is a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) and an adjunct professor at the Drama Therapy Institute in Los Angeles.  She has been a presenter at Drama Therapy Conferences and has taught internationally in China, 2019.  She continues to teach China students over Zoom since the pandemic.  She holds a credential in Authentic Movement from the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkely, CA.  Pam is an actor, director and writer and has been a resident artist in the theater company Panndora Productions for over 10 years.  She enjoys the arts – films, museums, plays, concerts, meditating, traveling (Italy is her favorite country) and you can often find her at The Mint on Sunday night listening to some good jazz.