Student Handbook - Argosy University

Brenda Frechette, PhD
California Institute of Integral Studies
Adjunct Faculty, Forensic Psychology
Currently Dr. Frechette supervises a Bay Area county psychiatric emergency service unit as
well as serving as that county’s mental health disaster response coordinator. She has worked in
community mental health for over thirty years (as a therapist, paramedic, clinical supervisor,
teacher, program developer, and administrator), specializing primarily in crisis intervention and
addiction. Work settings have ranged from addiction treatment and research (DUI, outpatient
detox, outpatient intensive, family, and residential treatment); forensic settings (assessments in
corrections for court system, working as a multidisciplinary case management team and developing
a mental health court model); and psychiatric assessment and treatment. Her therapy style
integrates phenomenological brief therapy with cognitive behavioral and systems theory. Her
current research interest is in vicarious healing and transformation (as well as traumatization.)
Susan Guzzo, PsyD
John F. Kennedy University
Faculty, Counseling Psychology
Dr. Guzzo obtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at John F. Kennedy University. She
specializes in Neuropsychology and Assessment, having trained at San Francisco General
Hospital and McAuley Adolescent Inpatient Unit at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco.
In private practice, she provides neuropsychological evaluation of geriatric patients and those
with complex medical issues. Other professional interests include developmental disorders
in children, attachment theory, and multicultural issues. Prior to her work in psychology, Dr.
Guzzo obtained a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Cornell University, and worked for
many years in the technology industry.
F. Myron Hays, PhD
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology
Dr. Hays holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in the basic sciences (both biology
and chemistry) with applications in human neurology, memory and learning. He is Board
certified in Clinical Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology. He
also has graduate training in education. He has longstanding special interest in the ways that
genetic factors underlie behavior and influence functioning. In addition to the background and
research in the basic sciences he has researched the ways people reason in high risk situations
and during emotional crises. He received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, with specialty training in Clinical Neuropsychology. He
is a licensed psychologist in the State of California (PSY17492). He is the Central Bay Consortium
Post-Doctoral Training Director at Kaiser Permanente, and director of training at the Oakland
location of the Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center, where he is assigned to the crisis
services. His clinical and research foci are supervision and crisis management as well as the
cognitive and emotional processes that precede behavioral emergencies. He completed his APA
internship at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids and his post-doctoral
training in rehabilitation and clinical psychology at the APPIC member program at Shasta
County Mental Health. He also has a special interest in the psychology of religious experience
and holds a graduate degree in theology (MDiv) from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
in Mill Valley, California. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) as
well as Divisions 12 (Clinical), 22 (Rehabilitation), the National Academy of Neuropsychology
(NAN) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).
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