Jim Turner

Jim Turner is a Licensed Clinical/Community Psychologist with more than 25 years in the field. He is also a multicultural consultant and trainer addressing diversity and multicultural competence challenges for organizations locally and nationally.

He is a consultant with VISIONS, Inc. a national and international organization providing consultation and education on multicultural change processes in organizations and community agencies.

As a full professor at John F. Kennedy University/Orinda, CA, Jim Turner supervises dissertations, serves on university and faculty Committees, and teaches the Integrative Professional Seminars. He provides consultation and community intervention courses, and monitors field placements. He also facilitates training of seminar students, teaches theories courses focused on traditional and alternative healing methods of world cultures, and teaches addiction and chemical dependency courses.

In addition, he has been a faculty member with the Wright Institute/Berkeley for 16 years. He offered advanced graduate courses in clinical skills and assessment, case conference, multi-cultural awareness in clinical practice, human development and life span, and personality theory and psychopathology.

Jim Turner worked as a Psychologist, for Kaiser Permanente Medical Center/Oakland as the Assistant Program Director of the Chemical Dependency Recovery Program. He provided individual, group and family therapy with adults, adolescents and children. He specialized in Brief Psychotherapy with culturally and ethnically diverse populations. He provided emergency room and hospital ward consultations, as well as, supervision, evaluation, hiring, professional development and diversity training and consultation.

He is a consultant and expert witness with Community & Public Agencies Nationally and in the Greater SF/Oakland Bay Area, providing services to multiple organizations for over 25 years.

Jim Turner is the Chair of the annual Chester Himes Black Mystery Writers Conference and Awards Program.

He holds an Ph.D. and MS in Clinical Psychology, from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Distinguished faculty of the year award for 2003 – 2004 at John F Kennedy University.