Phil Weglarz, Ph.D.

Phil is a licensed marriage and family therapist, registered expressive arts therapist, professor, researcher, and the current program chair of the graduate program in expressive arts therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, based in San Francisco. For 20 years, Phil has worked with a variety of individuals and families in medical hospitals, nursing homes, youth residential treatment, foster care/adoption, school-based services, and privately. Phil’s 2022 PhD dissertation, Kaleidoscopes of kinship: A narrative inquiry of birth fathers’ and adoptive fathers’ experiences of open adoption, gathered and compared a wide range of stories by men navigating their role in complex adoptive family systems.