Psychology Professor/Licensed Psychologist
Gavilan College
5055 Santa Teresa Boulevard
Gilroy, California 95020
(408) 852-2808
Office: PB 11-F
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Fall 2010 Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m
Tuesday: 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m
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Greetings. I am a Psychology Professor here at Gavilan College. I was raised in San Francisco, California, and have
been fortunate to amass 28 years of clinical experience (e.g., staff psychologist, clinical supervisor, inservice director,
consultant) and teaching experience (e.g., associate professor of psychology, associate professor of psychology and
counseling) in a variety of mental health and academic settings around the United States. I am licensed as a
psychologist in California (# PSY 20356) and New York (# 015719), registered as a National Health Service Provider
in Psychology (# 50889), and Board Certified as a Doctoral Addictions Counselor (# 4541) and Professional Christian
Counselor (# 0079). I am a graduate of Lowell High School (San Francisco), and have a B.A. in Psychology from
San Francisco State University, a M.S. in Counseling and Mental Health from California State University, East Bay,
and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Cincinnati.
I completed a Predoctoral Fellowship in Substance Abuse and Outpatient Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry
at Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, Connecticut), and a Postdoctoral Residency in Child, Family and Adult
Psychotherapy, and Behavioral Medicine in the Psychiatry Department at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center (Oakland,
California). I have published articles in such journals as Psychotherapy, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Work, and
the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and presented 150+ seminars on various mental health, relationship health,
physical health, and spiritual health topics all over the United States, in Toronto, Ontario, and in Guyana, South America.
I decided to become a Psychologist at age 17 while taking a psychology class as a junior in high school—I have never regretted
the decision. I very much enjoy teaching because it provides an excellent forum to sensitize students to the rich application of
psychology to every sphere of life. During my teaching career, psychology majors have surprised me with such awards as
Instructor of the Year, Most Inspirational Teacher, and Most Interesting Class.
For recreation, I run! (especially 5K races), play Scrabble, try to keep up with the latest holistic health advances, and travel.
I am a strong believer in the adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound a cure,” and therefore strive in my own life to
practice a lifestyle (i.e., NEWSTART) that not only prevents disease, but maximizes overall (holistic) health. If you are
interested in a career in psychology or want information on how to achieve optimal overall health, feel free to contact me.
Psychology and Psychology-related Associations to Explore
National Latina/o Psychological Association (NLPA)
California Latina/o Psychological Association (CLPA) (and numerous other valuable Latino/a links)
Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA)
Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP)
Association of Black Psychologists (ABpsi)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Counseling Association (ACA)
Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35 of APA)
Psychology of Religion (Division 36 of APA)
Health Psychology (Division 38 of APA)
California Psychological Association
California Board of Psychology (information on how to become licensed as a Psychologist in California)
Board of Behavioral Sciences (information on how to become licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist,
Social Worker, or Educational Psychologist in California)
American Art Therapy Association (information on how to become an Art Therapist)
National Association of Drama Therapy (information on how to become a Drama Therapist)
American Music Therapy Association (information on how to become a Music Therapist)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
NEWSTART—principles to maximize overall health
NEWSTART Magazine (describes the principles to maximize overall health under “Steps to Radiant Living”)
Weimar Institute of Health and Education (a health treatment center based on NEWSTART; cookbooks/videos)
Sette Publishing (articles/books on health and wellness; info sheets on health; vegetarian cookbooks/recipes)
Morningstar Farms, Cedar Lake Foods, Worthington Loma Linda (vegetarian/vegan products)
Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator (find out if you are in the weight range best for your health)
The National Weight Control Registry (read how 5000+ individuals have lost weight and kept it off)
Yuck! (then click “for the animals”)
There’s nothing like a challenging 5K...
From the exhilarating start... to the gut-busting, pushing it finish...
Health Links to Explore
The Merck Manual Medical Library
Healthy Life (health and wellness information)
Uchee Pines Institute, Lifestyle Center of America (health treatment centers using natural remedies;
vegetarian cookbooks/videos; vegetarian restuarant)
A Directory of Natural Medicine Homepages
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
The Alternative Medicine Homepage
Medical Abstracts on Various Herbal/Natural Remedies
Vitamins, Supplements and Natural Health Products
ConsumerLab.com (find out if the vitmain, supplement or natural health product you’re taking really works)
Stress Management and Reduction
Encyclopedia of Mental Health (information on all types of things related to mental health)
Other Interesting Links to Explore
College.gov (help to reach your dream of going to college)
100 Free College Rides You Don’t Need Daddy to Pay For
FastWeb.com, FinAid.org (financial aid resources)
College Altas, 50 States Colleges (links to college and university homepages in the U.S. and abroad,
and rankings of colleges and universities)
Diverse Issues in Higher Education (a multicultural perspective on education)
Careers in Psychology, Online Psychology Career Center, Psychology Careers and Job Search
Forensic Psychology (information on how to become a Forensic Psychologist, including criminal profiling)
PsychScholar (a collection of psychology links of all kinds, including links to
psychology departments in the USA and around the world)
Free Online Personality Test and Quizzes, Implicit AssociationTest (IAT)
HowStuffWorks.com (explanations for how just about anything works)
Reference Desk.com (a good source for facts of all kinds)
Some Quotes/Sayings to Live by from Me to You
“People can take almost anything from you, including your life, but they can’t
take away your health and education”—so get all you can.
“True joy comes from serving, not being served.”
“What better way to live than give.”
“What makes life worth living is giving.”
“If your happiness comes from giving rather than getting, you have plenty of
opportunity to feel this way.”
“Giving springs from viewing people as more important than my time, my money,
and my things.”
“Love is choosing over and over to say and do the things only for the best
good of another—it’s a principle practiced that should not be based on feelings.”
“The best jobs I’ve ever had, had me.”
“Those who don’t take care of business are soon out of business.”
“Optimism is the life blood of motivation.”
“Dreams without drive turn into nightmares.”
“Dream BIG, and then take the necessary small steps to get there.”
“Wisdom has to come from above if we don’t want to be-low.”
“If I had to do it all over again, I’d start from above.”
“The goal is not to be the best, but to do the best you can.”
“If you don’t think much of yourself, it will be hard to believe that anyone will either.”
“If people don't see it in you, telling them about it won’t make it so.”
“It’s not only difficult to give what you don’t have, but to receive what you feel you
don’t deserve.”
“Too often, we make things harder than they have to be.”
“Many continue in a path that seems right to them because they haven’t been informed
of a better way.”
“Everyone can benefit from a check up from the neck up.”
“You can’t lead anybody anywhere they don’t already want to go, so if they’re not
budging, back-off or you’ll push them away.”
“Judge others less, and yourself more.”
“Procrastination is a dagger in the back of academic success.”
“True education encompasses more than just enhancement of the mental faculties—what
about the physical, social and spiritual dimensions?”
“You can do what you wanna do when you wanna do it; you just don’t wanna do it yet,
if at all.”
“It's not the immensity of a task that makes it difficult, but the smallness of the motivation
brought to it”
“It takes most, if not all your time, energy and effort to be someone else, but little if any
to be yourself”
“Next time someone does you wrong, do them right.”
“Don’t ask me what I think, if you only want to hear yourself.”
“How can you take care of two—that relationship with your boyfriend, girlfriend or
spouse—when you can’t even take care of one—that relationship with yourself?”
“No one made you do it, you chose to.”
“Chose to do the right thing in the vulnerable moment.”
“Three torpedoes sink a person’s life: one from within—low self-esteem, and two from
without—unhealthy relationships with someone or some thing/activity.”
“If the cost of staying is greater than the cost of leaving and there’s no change in sight,
get out!”
“Eat to live, don’t live to eat,” and while you’re at it, why not “Drink to live, don’t live to drink.”
“We take better care of the cars we ride in than our bodies we reside in.”
“If you neglect your health, you’re casting to the ground most important wealth.”
“When I die, I want it to be because of old age, not because of this age.”
“Overweight? If you want to lose 10+ pounds and keep it off, drop dinner; if you want to
lose 25+ pounds and keep it off, drop dinner and fast food; if you want to lose 40+ pounds
and keep it off, drop dinner and fast food, and exercise to the point of perspiration at least
3 times a week for at least 45 minutes”—guaranteed if you stick with it
“Most of the time, we have a love-hate relationship with almost everything.”
“Life should be more about growing up (becoming a better and better person), and not
going up (climbing the pay scale)”
“Materialism is an obsessional desire for more and more and better and better
things—and one is never satisfied enough.”
“Once you distinguish between needs (necessary for survival) and wants (not necessary for
survival), and focus much less on striving for wants; stress decreases and contentment
abounds.”
“Addiction to anything is often a time-sucker, mind messer-upper, health disrupter,
relationship corrupter, and financial abductor.”
“Hooked on alcohol or other drugs?—get help to straighten up before you’re straightened out.”
“Let go the mouse and get out the house.”
“Put down the remote and pick up a life.”
“The best gift you can give your children is a good marriage.”
“We’re supposed to build our lives around our children, not our children around
our lives.”
“Want to cripple your children for life? Give them everything they want and fight
all their battles.”
“The vast majority of the discriminated against don’t want handouts, just hands-off.”
“Only with representative and mutual input, can representative and mutual benefit more
likely result.”
“If you think you have it bad, take a good look around you—there’s always someone
who would gladly trade places with you.”
Copyright © 2010
Carlton H. Oler, Ph.D.