About Jeffrey

Jeffrey Leiken, M.A. is a professional counselor and trainer, who travels nationwide educating and inspiring leaders in the helping professions. He has worked counseling children for over 19 years in schools, after school programs, residential treatment programs and summer camps, as well as in private practice in San Francisco, New York and London. He holds a Masters Degree in Educational Counseling, a Pupil Personnel Services credential and has extensive training and certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP™), and is one of only two Licensed Certified Trainers of the MythoSelf® process. He is also adjunct faculty in the University of San Francisco Graduate School of Education. Jeffrey has led hundreds of trainings for numerous conferences, agencies, schools and organizations, and is noted for his refreshing energy, warm sense of humor and progressive thinking and personal passion for the work.

 Currently providing these professional services

 • Founder, The Mentor Counseling Company
Providing professional counseling and mentoring intervention and services to youth in the San Francisco and New York

 • National Trainer and Consultant
Offering beginning to high level, intensive consultation and  training for youth and for organizations and adults working with today’s youth; as well as  presentations for seminars, workshops and conferences

 • Keynote Speaker on youth related issues
Exploring the possibilities of our work… What is it that we really do?… And how can we do it even better? … Challenging questions… Provocative insights .. Poignant stories…

 • Private Practice in MythoSelf™ Generative NLP based counseling for adults
Developing mastery of accessing generative states, exploring the intricacies of a life lived “at your best”

16+ years of Background Experience, including

 • Professional Counseling and Mentoring in Private Practice, Offices in San Francisco, New York and London Specializing in intensive individual and group counseling and mentoring intervention for troubled youth and their families, since 1997. 

• Adjunct Faculty, University of San Francisco, Graduate School of Education 

• Youth Service Program Trainer and Consultant, (1997 – ongoing) 

• School Counselor, San Francisco Unified School District (Community Day School, Pupil Personnel Services Department 1994 – 1996, Martin Luther King Middle School, 1996-1997) 

• Child Care Worker, Residential Treatment Center, (Edgewood Children’s Center, San Francisco, 1989-1993) 

• Consultant, San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department, (1994 – Ongoing) 

• Counselor and Administrator, Summer Camping Programs, (Camp Timberlane, Wisconsin, 1984- 1993, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, 1994) 

• Crisis Intervention Counselor (Suicide Prevention Hotline, San Francisco, 1990-1991)

Education and Training including:

 • Masters Degree in Educational Counseling, University of San Francisco, 1994 

• Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) Credential, State of California 

• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner Certification 

• Licensed Certified MythogenicSelfÔ Trainer and Practitioner through Applied Behavioral Technologies of New Jersey 

• NLP as Brief Therapy Certification through Meta-Outcomes of California 

• PART (Professional Assault Response Training) through Edgewood Children’s Center 

•  Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Training through San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline 

• Bachelor of Arts Degree, University of San Francisco, Valedictorian, 1991 

 
Just a few of the organizations Jeffrey has worked with:

 American Camping Association

YMCA

National School-Age Care Consortium

National Middle School Conference

National Older Kids Conference

California School-Age Consortium

Arizona Park and Recreation Department

United Airlines Believers Program

American Cancer Society

Community Network for Youth Development, San Francisco

Union of American Hebrew Congregations Youth Programs

Interlochen World Center for the Arts

SeaWorld Adventure Parks Education Department of San Diego and San Antonio

Morro Bay Recreation and Parks Department

Lake County Teen Connection

National Symposium on Youth

JCC Jewish Community Center National Conference

New Warriors Mankind Project

Butte County Office of Education  After School Programs Conference

Sonoma State COOL SCHOOL Program

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center

City of Pacifica Parks, Beaches and Recreation Department

Collaborative After-School Project University of California, Irvine

Community Action Team of Sisters, Oregon

City and County of El Cajon, California

National Symposium on Youth

Montana State Child Care Conference