Overview of Staff

Gary Mills, PhD, is the founder and director of the Pain Management Program. He is a psychologist specializing in Pain Management, Psychotherapy, Behavioral Medicine and Chemical Dependency. He received his Master's in Psychology from San Francisco State College and his PhD in General Experimental Psychology from the University of Ottawa. He holds a Diplomate from the American Academy of Pain Management and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Pain Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain.

John Wheeler, MD, serves as medical director for Pacifica’s Pain Management Program. Dr. Wheeler obtained his medical degree and served his residency at Loma Linda University with a specialization in family medicine. He opened his private practice in the Napa Valley in 1992 and is Board Certified in Family Medicine. He has experience in addiction medicine and served as the medical director of Crutchers’ alcohol and drug treatment program in Deer Park prior to joining Pacifica.

Bruce F. Singer, Psy.D., is the Director of Case Management and a licensed psychologist with specialties in chemical dependency, chronic pain, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention and pain management. He is a graduate of Pepperdine University and was trained at Tarzana Treatment Centers in Los Angeles and at Kaiser Permanente’s Chemical Dependency Recovery Program in Oakland. His work on mindfulness for relapse prevention has been published in Addiction Professional.

Jennifer Golick, M.F.T., is the Director of After Care and a licensed marriage and family therapist with a specialty in chronic pain management. A graduate of Sonoma State University’s graduate program in counseling psychology, she practiced with the Family Services of Napa Valley for 8 years prior to joining Pacifica Pain Management in 2008.

Peter Behel, M.A., is a biofeedback specialist who for the past 28 years has practiced in several different clinical settings and hospital-based programs. A former President of the Biofeedback Society of California (1992), he has performed neurofeedback (brainwave biofeedback) for attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity and epilepsy as well as having provided stress management and biofeedback services at the former Community Psychiatric Hospital in Santa Rosa. He began his career using biofeedback as an aid in vision development in Novato back in 1980, which is when he was also a part-time biofeedback instructor at Sonoma State University.

For more information about the program, please call (800) 964-1493 or (707) 963-1493.
Information is also available by visiting www.pacificapain.com.