Lundquist, Simone
Lecturer AY-C, Psychology
Preferred: simone.lundquist@sjsu.edu
Telephone
Preferred: (408) 924-5634
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco
- M.A., Clinical Psychology, CSPP
- M.S., Clinical Psychology, SJSU
- M.A., English Literature, ATU
Bio
Dr. Simone Lundquist earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco. Dr. Lundquist developed the Personal Agency Questionnaire (PAQ), an outcome assessment tool based on the concept of agency in Narrative Theory in 2012. She conducted another research on this outcome measure (PAQ) with added variables of Gender, Perception of being overweight, and Fat acceptance to establish additional validity and reliability for the Personal Agency Questionnaire in 2015. There is a link to this published research paper below.
Dr. Lundquist has gained rich experiences serving culturally diverse clientele from different walks of life, as a clinician, in community mental health agencies such as Momentum for Mental Health and the Center for Survivors of Torture. She has provided numerous trainings, workshops, and panels addressing effective ways of helping individuals overcome the problems that negatively impacted their lives for around 30 years now. Her successful "Voice Hearing" groups facilitated the liberation of many individuals diagnosed with psychosis from the mental health system, who are currently enjoying their independent lives. In her private practice, Beyond Limits Elite Consulting, she is helping her clients re-invent themselves and be all that they want to be.
Dr. Lundquist created Tri-Axis Narrative Theory as a result of her experiences traveling to many different countries and learning from different cultures, academic studies in her pursuit of understanding human nature, her extensive trainings in spirituality, her interactions and discussions with philosophers and scientists, and her passion and deep studies in Quantum physics. This holistic counseling approach integrates physical, spiritual, and mental fitness to foster resilience and joy. Dr. Lundquist developed it on the premise that trauma is a necessary ingredient for growth.
Dr. Lundquist made her dream of serving marginalized and vulnerable members of the community a reality in January 2019, when she founded her nonprofit, Open Doors to Future Possibilities. Here, Veterans and their family members receive services free-of-charge, and low-income community members receive counseling for only $10 an hour. The dedicated counselors trained by Dr. Lundquist have empowered over 11,000 across the Bay Area to confront past trauma, move through life challenges, achieve their goals and lead more fulfilling lives.
Staff and volunteers at the nonprofit have provided over 2,300 hours of tutoring, over 2,200 workshops and roundtable discussions, and over 460 employment pathways sessions. They have provided community members with food, shoes, socks, clothes, and other much needed supplies, as well as free laptops for Veterans who complete digital literacy classes. This program has served over 5,300 community members.
At the Academy of Tri-Axis Narrative Therapy at Open Doors to Future Possibilities, students are provided with thorough, comprehensive and hands-on trainings that are designed to provide the students with solid, core consultation skills so that they can achieve superlative results in assisting clients live happier, more meaningful lives. These trainings are grounded in social constructionist worldview, and post-structural and post-modern theories such as Narrative and Feminism that are not likely to be taught in conventional academic settings.
Currently, Dr. Lundquist maintains an active line of research investigating the damaging impacts of the dominant cultural discourses on the lives of individuals and their sense of personal agency.
Links
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1722263366