Stephen Larsen, Ph.D., LMHC (New York State) A.I.B.T., B.C.I.A.-eeg is a graduate of Columbia University, (B.A., M.A.), and The Union Graduate School (Ph.D.). He is Psychology Professor Emeritus at SUNY Ulster, where he ran a biofeedback laboratory that served students and staff for twenty-eight years. During this time he also trained in clinical depth psychotherapy with Edward Whitmont, M.D., Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and, in the 1970’s, with Stanislav Grof, M.D., then Staff Psychiatrist and researcher at Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. He also studied for over twenty years with Joseph Campbell, M.A. LL.D., in the interpretation of Myth and Dream Symbolism.

Dr. Stephen is certified at the level of Mentor by the AIBT (American Institute of Biofeedback Technicians), and in EEG by the BCIA (Biofeedback Certification Institute of America) where he is a Fellow. He is also licensed in HeartMath, and trained directly under Len Ochs for about 10 years, also serving as a teacher and trainer. A former yoga instructor, he also holds a second-degree black belt in Japanese Karate, and is a certified Qi Gong therapist.

Stephen is a co-founder, with his wife Robin, of the not-for-profit Center for Symbolic Studies, which sponsors seminars, seasonal festivals, programs for youth and the developmentally disabled. He is  the author of The Shaman’s Doorway, The Mythic Imagination, and with Robin, A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell, as well as The Fashioning of Angels: Partnership as Spiritual Practice. More recently he authored The Healing Power of Neurofeedback, the Revolutionary LENS Method for Restoring Optimal Brain Function, The Fundamentalist Mind: How Polarized Thinking Imperils us All, and The Neurofeedback Solution (2012).  In 2017 he published the The Transformational Power of Dreaming, Discovering the Wishes of the Soul with Tom Verner.