"My name is Pamela Granick, and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to join the team at The Center as its newest counselor and co-facilitator.

  
My initial affiliation with The Center began in 2009 as a volunteer, while I was completing my internship towards a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Family Studies from Corban University.  Although I was employed as a Youth Behavioral Specialist and group facilitator with New Morning Youth and Family Services at the time, my program requirements did not permit me to intern with my employer.  As I considered the different human services agencies in the Placerville area that offered internship opportunities, I discovered The Center was the logical choice for me.  After all, the original impetus for me to return to school to become trained as a counselor was rooted in my experiences in supporting a friend through a difficult, abusive and frightening long-term relationship to a place of health and safety.  It was through that process that I had come to understand how unresolved issues with abusive relationships and past sexual assault can underlie depression, anger, social functioning and image problems, and how easily the core issues can be missed by friends, family members, faith community representatives and even mental health professionals who have not been trained to detect the signs of interpersonal violence.

The Center's rich and extensive training program was the perfect counterpoint to my formal training, and I was blessed to be allowed to work with both sides of the "power and control" equation:  empowering victims as a crisis counselor, and assisting aggressors in developing new communication skills as a co-facilitator for the CAP and MAAP programs. 

 

When my internship was completed, I was asked to continue in these capacities as a staff member, and I am excited and enthusiastic about the prospect of assisting clients to move beyond their previous scripts as victims and perpetrators to discover their exceptional strengths and inner resources, on the way to fulfilling their unique purposes in life."