Rev. Dr. Valerie Galante
Abbreviated Vitae
EDUCATION:
ORDINATION- Interfaith Minister
Master’s Degree, Spiritual Counseling
All Faiths Seminary International
Administrative Office
August 2000 7 West 96th Street, Suite 19B
New York, NY 10025
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP:
Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine
Michigan State University
College of Human Medicine/
Family Practice Residency Program
Flint, Michigan
GRADUATE DEGREES - APA Accredited Programs
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11757
M.A., Theoretical Psychology
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE
B.A., Rutgers College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rutgers College
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Major: Psychology
Minor: Philosophy/Gender Studies
PROFESSIONAL/CLINICAL EXPERIENCE - POST Ph.D.:
- Founder, Finding Your Way, Inc. (June 1999 – Present) www.findingyourwayinc.org
Ordained Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Director providing spiritual guidance and direction services to individuals of all religious and spiritual faith traditions with a focus on integration of mind, body, spirit and nature; Reiki Practitioner; Editor & Publisher of Finding Your Way: A Column about Spirituality and Religion.
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist – (1990 to Present)
Providing assessment, diagnostic and therapeutic services & assessments to individuals, couples, families & groups from diverse socioeconomic & cultural backgrounds. Utilizing a holistic, ecological systems approach integrating mind-body-spirit-nature.
- Fellow, Core Spirituality Institute (2002 to Present) www.corespirituality.com
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:
Galante, V. (1999). Spirituality Within the Context of a Holistic Life.
Burlington County Woman, Sep/Oct., p.18.
Galante, V. (1999). Searching for Meaning? Try Spiritual Guidance and
Ecopsychology. Burlington County Woman, July/Aug., p.12.
Galante, V. (1997). Managed care is not the enemy. APA Monitor, 28(9),
p.6.
Galante, V. (1997). Spirituality and the treatment of eating disorders.
Spiritual and Religious Issues in Behavior Change, 10, 3-4.
Galante, V. (1996). We need a change: The misguided science and
practice of psychology. Changes, 14, 268-272.
Galante, V. (1996). Spiritual beliefs and psychological health. The
Alternative Health Practitioner, 2, 15-17.
Galante, V. (1995). Food and mood: The role of nutrition in
psychological health. In The Psychology of Health, Immunity, and
Disease, (Vol.B), 83-110. Mansfield Center, CT: National Institute for
the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine.
Galante, V. (1994, Winter). Nutrition and psychological health. The
Health Psychologist, 16, 5-11.
Galante, V. (1994, Fall). A funny thing happened on the way to
prevention. The Health Psychologist, 16, 8-9.
Galante, V. (1994, Summer). The simple solution is touching. The
Health Psychologist, 16, 8-9.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
Editor, Spiritual Digest, monthly newsletter for the All Faiths Seminary International, New York, New York (11/99 – 12/00)
Editor, Spiritual and Religious Issues in Behavior Change, quarterly publication of the Spiritual and Religious Issues Special Interest Group of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) (1/96 - 1/98)
WRITING EXPERIENCE:
Regularly Featured Columnist, The Health Psychologist, a publication of the American Psychological Association, Division 38 - Health Psychology (1994 - 1995).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/OTHER:
Participant, Doctors of the World Human Rights Clinic (Summer, 2001, NYC, NY).
Doctors of the World is a non-profit, nonsectarian organization dedicated: to improving the health and relieving the suffering of vulnerable populations in the US and abroad; to developing approaches to delivery of medical care and public health that enhance respect for human dignity; to exposing and bearing witness to human rights violations where health is at stake; and to fulfilling the ideals of medicine by encouraging health professionals to provide voluntary services to under-served populations.
The Human Rights Clinic project uses the skills and expertise of physicians and mental health care professionals to support the cases of torture survivors and increase their chances for asylum. Human Rights Clinic volunteers examine clients and evaluate the medical evidence of their torture claims. If the claim of torture is determined to be credible based upon the findings, then the volunteers prepare a written affidavit for use in the political asylum proceeding. Since the program began in 1993, hundreds of torture survivors from over fifty countries have received the free services provided by the Human Rights Clinic Project of Doctors of the World. Over 80% of those who have had their cases adjudicated have been granted political asylum.
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