Sandra Levy Ceren, Ph.D. is a practicing clinical psychologist with over forty years experience.
As an expert, she appeared on many T.V and radio programs, such as OPRAH, and GOOD MORNING AMERICA and the BBC.
A Diplomate of the American Board of Family Psychology, specializing in marital therapy, she served on the Board from 1982-85. And she is a Fellow of the Academy of Family Psychology.
She has a B.A. Brooklyn College, M.S. City College of New York, completed doctoral courses at Yeshiva University, and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from USIU. She also completed the training program at American Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in New York.
She was editor: "The Family Psychologist" 1982-85, and Editor of The San Diego Academy of Psychologists monthly newsletter l985-1987
Sandy has been a weekly local newspaper columnist "Ask Dr. Ceren since 1978. Her columns focus on relationships and reviews of the latest psychological research.
However her accomplishments didn’t come easy. Self-supporting, she worked full time while attending college and graduate school. Rather than feeling deprived, she says she feels empowered by the process.
Although she was in the academic program at James Madison High School, she pleaded and was allowed to take a typing course in order to work after school. Typing proved very useful in her later professional career.
Among her early jobs were those in the Catskills where she was dining room hostess at the Concord learning the art of matching people at dining tables and enjoying the association of many entertainers. As a young woman, she worked as receptionist in a variety of interesting settings, arming her with useful knowledge about the workplace.
She married in 1963, divorced in l975. The mother of two children she raised them on her own. She is now a grandmother of four grandsons. She remarried in 1986 to Ely Levinsky, a aerodynamist she knew since 1980. They live in Del Mar, California.
She is especially pleased to have an early dream fulfilled. The impact of managed care played havoc with her psychological work, forcing her to work fewer hours, but leaving her time to pursue her passion for writing fiction.
She is a published author of two psychological thrillers PRESCRIPTION FOR TERROR, and SECRETS FROM THE COUCH, featuring Cory Cohen, a Brooklyn raised psychologist/sleuth. Scenes are set Brooklyn, as well as the North Coast of San Diego.
An avid reader, she always enjoyed writing. Encouraged at James Madison High School, she decided to major in English, but her dream evaporated after her first English assignment at Brooklyn College. Her psychoanalysis of Hamlet received a dismal, disappointing grade.
Devastated, head down, she practically crawled to her next class-psychology, catching the attention of her sympathetic professor who asked her to stay after class. When he asked what was wrong, tears rolled down her face as she showed him her paper. He read it and cheerfully said he’d have given her in A. He suggested she change her major to psychology.
A very wise decision. Writing and other creative arts can be frustrating careers where hard work, dedication, talent and perseverance do not assure success, and Sandy needed to earn a living. Psychology offered that and a chance to make a difference in people’s lives.
She is pleased to be able to work in professions that offer the opportunity to use her creative resources.
For further info on Sandy click on http://www.drsandralevyceren.com/
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