Mr. Buck has been in practice as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Davis and Sacramento for 16 years. He is an advanced candidate and doctoral candidate at The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco.
He obtained his Masters in Psychology at New College of California in San Francisco in 1989. Mr. Buck went on to extensive post-graduate training including Dual Diagnosis, Personality Disorders, Trauma and Anxiety.
His dissertation research is on psychosomatic processes, namely Somatic Splitting in disorders of the self and self-representations/schemas. In simple terms his research is on how emotional life (or death) is lived in the theaters of the body.
In addition to his private practice he teaches licensed therapists and pre-licensed therapists in case conference and individually who are seeking to learn psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Psychoanalytic Psychology Training Associates Seminars in Sacramento.
Mr. Buck has been the Director of Clinical Education and Training at HRC North Area Regional Clinic from 2004 through 2009 where he taught and supervised clinicians in the psychological treatment of psychosis and severe personality disorders.
In 1991 Mr. Buck was awarded the Mental Health Worker of the Year Award by the Sacramento-Placer Chapter of the Mental Health Association for his work in the community psychiatric field of Dual Diagnosis Treatment and his co-founding the Sacramento County Dual Diagnosis Task Force.
In 2001 Mr. Buck co-founded the Sacramento Valley Education Committee of The Northern California Society For Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy which is part of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. In 2008 Mr. Buck was one of the founding charter members of SVAPP -Sacramento Valley Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy which formed its own local division 39 chapter in 2009 so as to have more independence and Sacramento community focus.
