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Glenn Motola, PSY.D., Executive Director, received his Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology form Pepperdine University. He has a Master’s Degree in Bilingual/Clinical Psychology from Montclair University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics & Spanish Language and Literature from College of the Holy Cross.

Dr. Motola’s career has followed the path of developing and leading non-profit educational and social service agencies. For the past eleven years he was the Director of Programs and Services for a large non-profit agency that served over 40,000 clients annually with a staff of over 800 people. In addition, he was an adjunct professor at JFK University teaching in their doctoral program.

Dr. Motola also maintained a clinical caseload for many years in a private psychotherapy practice in San Francisco. Dr. Motola began his career working with children who were challenged by many special needs. He served as the director of a summer camp in New Jersey for ten years. The camp specialized in meeting the needs of children with multiple disabilities including those on the autism spectrum. He was the first clinician in an innovative program in Los Angeles in the early ‘90s for children infected with HIV/AIDS. Dr. Motola went on to write his doctoral dissertation in the area of challenges faced by adolescents with special needs.

Dr. Motola and his partner currently live on a farm in Sonoma county with their adopted daughter, who is challenged with a neurogenetic condition.

Cheryl-lynn Rogers, Ph.d., Clinical Director, received her Doctoral Degree in clinical Psychology form McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Rogers has worked in various community mental health, hospital and rehabilitation settings during the past ten years providing assessment, therapeutic and consultative services to families and children across the age range from infancy to adolescence. She has a strong background in Developmental Psychology and has a special interest in the role of attachment relationships in the development of self-regulation.

Dr. Rogers has served as a behavioral consultant to both public and private schools for students showing a broad range of neurodevelopmental challenges such as autism spectrum disorders, traumatic brain inury, cerebral palsy, and other mutisystem developmental disorders. She is strongly committed to integrated, interdisciplinary assessment and treatment approaches for children with special needs.

Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D., Clinical Director, holds doctoral degrees in Psychology and Special Education from U.C. Berkeley. She is a licensed psychologist and educator, with credentials in teaching the severely handicapped and learning handicapped, and in administration and supervision. She has taught and supervised at the Infant-Parent Program in the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco; the Child Development Center, California Pacific Medical Center; and the Child Development Program, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. She is on the board of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), and leads their summer training institutes. Dr. Kalmanson has spoken at conferences nationally and internationally. Her publications focus on affective development, early intervention with children with difficulties in relating and communicating, and the importance of family-provider relationships. She has worked in special education and with families as a psychotherapist for over 30 years.

Lizz Domash, Oak Hill School’s art therapist, has a Masters Degree in Creative Arts therapy and a Bachelors Degree in Music Therapy. She has 25 years’ experience working with children and teens, both individually and in groups. Lizz plays piano, guitar and flute, in addition to having extensive experience in dance and art. She has worked as a Creative Arts Therapist at Pacific Medical Center, the McAuley Institute, Oakes Children’s Center, McKinley Elementary School, and Sleepy Hollow Pre-School.

Michael McDonald, teacher, earned his Bachelor’s degree at Harvard and his Master of Education degree from Eastern Nazarene College. Michael also holds the following credentials: Learning Handicapped, Mild/Moderate, Resource Specialist, Single Subject and Multiple Subject. He has been a special education teacher both in public and private settings, serving pre-school through high school. Michael has been a teacher of teachers, providing mentorship and consultation to teachers of emotionally disturbed, learning challenged and behaviorally disordered students. He also served as the Director of the Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool in San Francisco.

Allura MacGillivary, Oak Hill’s full-time speech therapist, completed her Master's in Communication Disorders from the University of Vermont in 1999. She has worked with clients with oral motor impairment, Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury, Down's syndrome, nonverbal learning disorders, and a variety of other neurological conditions. She is Hanen certified and has completed Michelle Garcia Winner's social thinking mentorship program.