About Me

Dr. Peter deMaCarty is a psychotherapist and coach.  In addition, he is a management consultant and writer.

Earlier in his career, he provided psychotherapy in settings including a Community Mental Health center, St. Vincent’s School for Boys, and private practice.  In these, he served individual adults, couples, families, and children.  He provided practical counseling to homeless individuals in a temporary housing center.  He worked with adolescents in residential treatment centers.  He worked at a residential center for people with schizophrenia, interacting with patients and helping to oversee the shift.  He is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 14572).

After that, he applied his skills in the corporate world.  He worked at one of the premier corporations in terms of demonstrating how to serve the world with great integrity and with a superb rate of growth and level of profitability--Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) in the days when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were still active in the company.  There he held management positions in which he helped the company understand customer psychology in order to provide genuinely useful, and highly profitable, products.  He and co-author S. Srinivasan of Stanford University won the Harden Award for best paper of the year in the journal Marketing Research.  He delivered papers at annual academic meetings and published a journal article on corporate social responsibility.

Then he returned to his earlier work, by offering psychotherapy and coaching .  He brings to them the insights and sesoning obtained through the preceding activities, his ongoing study of psychotherapy, and his experiences with his own family.

Peter was educated initially at Williams College for two years.  There he performed in the highest tier of achievement; in the second semester of freshman year, he was first in his class.  He then transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned a B.F.A., and developed outstanding abilities in oil painting.  Next he received his M.A. in psychology from Lone Mountain College (which was absorbed by the University of San Francisco toward the end of his program).  Then he obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University.

Note:  Psychotherapy is practiced under my California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist license (LMFT 14572).  Coaching, like consulting, is not a service that has an associated license, and is not provided under my LMFT license.