Birgit Wolz

Birgit Wolz was born in Germany and has lived in the United States since 1989. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Berlin, Germany, and an MA in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California.

She has a psychotherapy practice in Oakland, California. Her love for motion pictures led her to start using the power of movies as an adjunct to traditional therapeutic methods in her work with individual clients, couples, and groups.

Dr. Wolz has published articles on this subject in many periodicals and journals and is in demand for media interviews. She presents workshops worldwide to psychotherapists as well as to the general public. She writes a column for The Therapist on therapeutic movie reviews and has served as a faculty member at JFK University in Pleasant Hill, CA as well as at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.

She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Her popular Web site, www.cinematherapy.com, is widely recognized as being the most accessible and all-encompassing site on cinema therapy.

Dr. Wolz can be reached by email at bwolz@earthlink.net.