Santa Clara University

About Us - Mike Axelman

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Phone: 408-551-1981

Mike Axelman Ph.D.

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Michael Axelman, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. He graduated with honors (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude) from the University of Vermont, and received his M.A. in the Social Sciences and Ph.D. in Human Development: Psychology from the University of Chicago. He was awarded the John Dewey Prize Lectureship in the College, and held fellowship at the Joint Center for Poverty Research (Northwestern University/University of Chicago, and the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago.

He has developed astrength-based approach to parent therapy (C.A.R.E:Caring Adults and Respectful Environments). C.A.R.E. Parent Therapy is a therapeutic approach that utilizes a parent’s capacity to care as a therapeutic tool. He has produced a training video on C.A.R.E. Parent Therapy, and trained hundreds of students and practicing therapists how to conduct their brief, strength-based intervention. Michael Axelman is a licensed clinical psychologist and maintains a child and adolescentpsychotherapy practice in Palo Alto. He consults regularly with parents, school and mental health clinics.