About

Doreen Hamilton, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over twenty-five years of experience with individuals, couples, and groups. Now specializing in the treatment of anxiety caused by the fear of speaking, she offers psychotherapy, private coaching, Speaking Circles®, workshops and Teleclasses. She also leads authentic communication seminars throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

As Training Director of Speaking Circles International (SCI), an organization dedicated to helping people speak more naturally and powerfully, she teaches with Lee Glickstein, founder of SCI and author of Be Heard Now! Tap into Your Inner Speaker and Communicate with Ease. With Glickstein, she has created and delivered the Voice Your Vision training programs, the Full Presence Communication series, and the Leadership Presence intensives.

Doreen co-facilitates a week-long retreat in Molokai Hawaii, SpeakingQuest: Journey to your Authentic Self. This transformational program guides participants who want to actualize and live their dreams. Doreen has designed and co-produced a workshop for new and published authors, Writing Out Loud. Those who suffer from writer’s block find their voice and words begin to flow freely.

Other selected venues where Doreen has taught her class, Fearless Speaking: Discovering Your True Voice, are San Francisco State University, Pickett Advertising Agency, The Imagination Center, East Bay Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, The Junior League, Medical Students for Choice, the San Francisco Garden for the Environment, British Stammering Association, and the Toastmasters Annual Conference.

After earning a degree in Sociology in the 1960’s Doreen’s life path took her to Malaysia as a Peace Corps volunteer. She saw that at the core of social problems were communication and relationship issues. She returned to get a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and began her private practice in the 1980’s.

Although she was working to help others overcome their fears, she admits that she had a hidden terror of her own. She was afraid to speak in public. This personal challenge led her to Speaking Circles where she found the opportunity to finally face and transform anxiety and discovered the inner strength that now compels her to teach others how to dissolve stage fright forever. Doreen’s calling is to facilitate personal and professional transformation and to help people recover their vibrant inner spirit and speak without fear.