About Dr. Gayle Peterson
 

Gayle Peterson, LCSW (#7603), PhD is an international relationship expert. Her articles appear in professional journals and her expertise has been quoted in popular magazines such as Woman's Day, Fit Pregnancy and Parenting. Dr. Gayle Peterson has written monthly family columns for the San Francisco Bay Area's Parents Press and appeared on numerous websites as a relationship expert, as well as the NBC's Today Show, and Canadian Broadcast. She is former clinical director of the Holistic Health Program at John F. Kennedy University and has served as adjunct faculty at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.

A national public speaker on relationship issues, Dr.Gayle Peterson counsels individuals, couples and families in her private psychotherapy practice in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Her website has won an honorable mention from the Association of Marriage and Family Therapy .

Dr. Peterson is also the founder PetersonChildbirthMethod.com, training professionals in her personal growth model, based on her books, An Easier Childbirth, Birthing Normally and her latest book, Making Healthy Families.

Gayle also enjoys playing Celtic fiddle, attending yoga classes and an active family life as grandparent to five grandchildren.