Student Handbook - Argosy University

Mary Herget, PhD
California Graduate School
Faculty, Clinical Psychology
Over the past twenty years, Dr. Herget has taught courses in couple, family, brief, and narrative
therapy and has provided one-way mirror clinical training to student therapists in a variety
of graduate schools in the Bay Area. These have included Alliant International University,
The Wright Institute, California State University at Hayward, and the California Institute of
Integral Studies, as well as Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area where she is currently a
full time core faculty member. Dr. Herget was also the Clinical Director of the Redwood Center
(1985-1999), and pre and post doctoral level training programs providing treatment for low
income clients in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. In more recent years, Dr. Herget has
been conducting continuing education workshops in supervision through Alliant University. Dr.
Herget maintains a private practice in San Francisco. Her research interests include quantitative
studies examining process and outcome variables contributing to client satisfaction with therapy.
Eugene Hightower, PhD
The Wright Institute
Faculty, Clinical Psychology
Dr. Hightower completed his undergraduate work in Psychology and Social Relations at Harvard
University, a Masters in Community Mental Health at University of California at Berkeley, and
doctorate in Social-Clinical Psychology at The Wright Institute. His clinical internship was
in community mental health and was completed at University California, San Francisco. He
also completed a post doctoral fellowship in Psychology at University California, Berkeley. Dr.
Hightower has been licensed as a psychologist since 1983. He has worked in numerous clinical
settings. He has also been a faculty member in both Psychology and Ethnic Studies Departments.
His primary research interests are in optimal psychological functioning and ethnopsychology.
Christy Hobza, PsyD
California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology
Dr. Hobza obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional
Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco. She is an Adjunct Professor
teaching in the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology programs at Argosy University,
San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in teaching cognitive assessment and psychodynamic
theory. She works as an assessment specialist at WestCoast Children’s Clinic in Oakland,
California specializing in neuropsychological assessments of children and adolescents as well
as implementing a therapeutic collaborative assessment model with children, families, and
caregivers.
Kim Huselid, MFT
John F. Kennedy University
Adjunct Faculty, MA Counseling Psychology
Ms. Huselid maintains a private practice in Oakland, California and sees children, adolescents,
couples and adults. Her special interests are in working with children with learning differences
as well as those with life threatening illnesses or chronic illnesses. She provides consultation
and direct service to families and children undergoing treatment for life threatening illnesses
at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California where she is employed by the Felton
Family Foundation and serves on their Board of Directors as well. Ms. Huselid also supervises for
Circle of Care in Oakland, California an agency serving families struggling with loss and illness.
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