About
Dr. Keith Witt is a licensed psychologist and marriage family therapist who has practiced psychotherapy in Santa Barbara for over thirty-five years. He received his BA in psychology with honors from UCSB in 1973, his MA in Counseling Psychology from UCSB in 1975, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Fielding Institute in 1982. His dissertation exploring somatic psychotherapy was entitled an investigation of the effectiveness of talking plus touching in enhancing health.
He has conducted over forty-five thousand therapy sessions, hundreds of group sessions, and taught numerous classes and workshops.
Dr. Witt is currently a popular professor at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and is a writer, lecturer, and workshop leader. He has expertise in:
- Individual counseling
- Marriage counseling
- Family counseling
- Sex therapy
- Group therapy
- Clinical Supervision
Classes and lectures he has offered include:
- Attunement as an organizing principle in health, relationships, and therapy.
- The Gift of Shame: how to use shame as a resource and guide in psychotherapy.
- Integral Sex Therapy
- Shame: The misunderstood emotion.
- Integrally informed psychotherapy and interpersonal neurobiology: a match made in heaven
- Counseling skills and theories
- Uplevel your natural healing style study group
- Enhance your natural healing style using perspectives, techniques, and art you enjoy
- Couples counseling
Dr. Witt is is the author of four books:
- Waking Up: Psychotherapy as Art, Spirituality and Science.
- Sessions: all therapy involves relationships integrating toward unity.
- The Attuned Family; how to be a great parent to your children and a great lover to your spouse.
- The Gift of Shame: why we need shame and how to use it to love and grow.
In the last decade Keith has been synthesizing and applying Integral psychology, David Deida’s teachings about the masculine and feminine, ascending and descending spiritual practices, developmental neurobiology, manifestation systems, and attachment research. This work has yielded classes, workshops, four books, and clinical training organized around the principle that therapists best serve by discerning and enhancing their natural healing styles.
Born in Hawaii, raised in suburban Los Angeles, Keith has lived and worked in Santa Barbara since 1967. Dedicating himself at fifteen to becoming a psychotherapist, he has been studying, practicing, teaching, and generating transformative healing systems ever since. During this time he has enthusiastically surfed, played tennis, tap-danced, and fronted his rock and roll band Blown Head Gasket. He earned his black belt in Shotokan Karate in 1969, continued to study martial arts, and presently enjoys tai chi. He and his wife Becky met in 1973 and have two grown children, Ethan and Zoe.
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