​Doug Lerch MFT (he/him) is a licensed psychotherapist and certified mindfulness teacher with over 15 years of experience. He is the founder and lead teacher at Insight Petaluma. Doug is also an Adjunct Faculty at his alma mater California Institute of Integral Studies.

 

Through his 25 years of meditation experience and over 100 days in silent retreat, Doug has studied Vipassana, Dzogchen, and other non-dual forms of meditation with some of today’s most renown teachers in the various Buddhist traditions. 

 

Doug earned his B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Maine, and his Masters in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.  From 2012 to 2022 Doug founded and directed Seeds of Awareness, a non-profit organization serving over 2,500 children in schools and communities with mindfulness and nature based counseling services. 

 

Currently, Doug focuses the majority of his work with adults utilizing a new and innovative therapeutic process called Core Self Reclamation Therapy. Doug has trained with the founder of the modality, SueAnne Pilliero since the inception of the modality in 2021, and  now a lead. trainer in Core Self Reclamation Therapy.