Mark Malay is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is employed as a sheriff’s detentions mental health clinician in San Diego. Mark’s professional and academic expertise in psychotherapy, forensics, hypnosis, and psychophysiological assessments bring considerable support to further the international and multi-discipline research goals of PSYmore into the understanding of human consciousness.
Current Work
Currently, Mark is a doctoral candidate with Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. He expects to complete his doctorate in clinical psychology in 2007 while concurrently working toward biofeedback and hypnosis certification. Mark has been practicing Yoga in some form since the late 1980s and is incorporating biofeedback measures in his dissertation to examine the influence of yoga on health.
Background
Mark’s expertise with criminology and counseling is extensive. Since 2000 to present, he has worked as a sheriff’s detentions mental health clinician in San Diego, California. In collaboration with deputy probation officers, he works with severely mentally ill felons to reduce re-incarceration recidivism. This focus was supported in part by the MENTAL ILL OFFENDERS CRIME REDUCTION grant. In addition, Marks works with inmates in the San Diego central jail’s psychiatric security unit, which entails providing crisis, individual, group, forensics, and competency restoration services.
From 1998-2000, he worked as a protective services field worker with children and elderly or disabled adults. This involved reporting to the Juvenile Dependency Court on the progress of family and children within the judicial system. From 1996-1998, he was the social worker director of a six-bed group home facility for emotionally disturbed adolescent through teenaged males for which he provided both clinical services and management responsibilities for the facility.
Prior to 1997, Mark worked in various professional retail, industrial, and phone sales positions with national companies and various other positions including military training, furniture mover, pizza delivery, security, and auto mechanics while attending undergraduate college. During 1980-1989, he served in the United States Marine Corps as a Captain and was
deployed to Central and South America, Africa, Western Europe, and Southwest Asia. He held various posts in which he served as a rifle and weapons platoon commander, general staff officer and reconnaissance training officer as a lieutenant, commanding officer of security detachment, and officer in charge of data programmers and data processing as a captain. During 1990-1991, he was reactivated in the United States Marine Corps and served in a combat unit as an administration officer for Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
Education
Ph.D. (doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology), 2007 expected award of degree, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, California
M.A., (Counseling Psychology), 1996, National University, La Jolla, California
B.S., (Earth Science), 1980, State university College, Brockport, New York
Educational or Professional Honors and Association Memberships
Professional Qualifications
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California)
Professional Memberships
Mark resides in Oceanside, California. He has two children. He may be contacted at
mmalay@psymore.org.
