Beverly Peterson has extensive experience in counseling and nursing. She currently works as a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice and as an instructor at University of Phoenix. Her expertise is in psychiatric nursing, as wells as transformational and depth psychology.
She became a faculty member at University of Phoenix in 1997 and teaches nursing, counseling and general education at the San Diego Campus. She has also taught at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
For 40 years, Beverly has worked in the fields of counseling and nursing. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, she conducts individual, group, couples and family therapy in a private practice.
Her previous professional experience as a health care provider in nursing includes roles as a staff nurse in medical-surgical nursing and head nurse and supervisor in neurosurgery, orthopedics and psychiatry. She has also served as director of nursing at a psychiatric hospital.
Beverly co-authored the book "How to Live with PTSD: The Causes and Characteristics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" with her late husband, Richard W. Peterson, Ph.D., MBA.
Beverly earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University for Humanistic Studies in California. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She currently attends the Master of Arts/Ph.D. in Mythological Studies program with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif.
