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About Dublin Popov, LCSW
 Life
is about change. Those people who can embrace change are positioning
themselves to take advantage of all that life has to offer: personal
growth and fulfillment, a rich array of life experiences and challenges, and the
opportunity to feel needed and be of service to others. Gratitude for all that
comes our way permits us to honor and celebrate life.
Dublin Popov began her clinical
work with clients in 1990 and still can’t think of any work more rewarding than
facilitating the process that leads clients to greater insight, clarity, and the
resolution of the many issues that people bring to counseling and coaching.
She is committed to helping clients build self-awareness, inner resources
and the skills that contribute to personal fulfillment.
A successful outcome of counseling and coaching may include a renewed
sense of hope and increased choices in life.
In the 1980s Dublin worked as a consultant in market research and business
development to multinational corporations in high-tech industry in Silicon
Valley in California. She observed that many of the executives with
whom she worked suffered from a lack of balance in their lives and seemed also
to lack the tools with which to more effectively prioritize their
responsibilities. This experience inspired her to return to school to earn
a master’s degree in clinical social work at Smith College in Northampton, MA.
She envisioned a future career as a mental health professional which would allow
her to work with business executives and others to help them develop a
foundation for psychological health and business success.
During
Dublin’s studies at Smith College, she served two full-time, 8-month internships
at Jewish Family and Children’s Services in Brookline, MA and Bradley Memorial
Hospital (a Brown University teaching hospital), a private children’s
psychiatric hospital in East Providence, RI.
Following completion of her program at Smith College School for Social
Work in 1992, she worked for two years as a primary clinician at the Institute
of Living, a private psychiatric hospital in Hartford, CT.
In 1995, she became the first social worker to be invited to join the
National Health Service Corps, and under its auspices created and directed a
treatment foster care program for the Nebraska Panhandle.
She recruited and trained families living in this western part of the
state to work with emotionally disturbed children and also practiced as a
psychotherapist. In July 2000 she
moved to Denver, CO where she was in private practice for five years, providing
both counseling and coaching services.
In 2007
Dublin returned to the West Coast where she first lived and worked, and now has
a private practice in Salem, OR. In
her practice she sees adults individually, couples and families and also
provides a variety of coaching services.
She is licensed as a clinical social worker in the states of Oregon and
Washington and is qualified to provide clinical supervision to Marriage and
Family Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors and Licensed Clinical Social
Workers in the state of Oregon with certificate of completion for 30 hours of
training from Portland State University on May 18, 2008.
She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.
Dublin is
still as passionate about her work with clients as she was when she started out
as a beginning clinician. Over the
years she has enjoyed volunteer work in the areas of civil and human rights as
well as the environment, and remains curious about life and its rich array of
ever-unfolding possibilities.
Dublin earned her undergraduate degree from the
University of California at Berkeley which included one year of study at the
University of Vienna in Austria and a semester of academic work at the
University of Aix-Marseilles in Aix-en-Provence, France.
She received a graduate degree from the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver, and her master’s degree in social work from Smith College.
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