For Mom With Love: Celebrating a life of compassion and creativity

In loving memory of Dr. Lee Hartley, who died peacefully in San Rafael, California at the age of 83. August 15, 1940 - February 17, 2024
Beloved daughter, mother, grandmother and friend
Always in the light
The only child of Lueleanor Campbell and Milbern Edwin Hartley, Lee was born Lueleanor Opal Hartley in Los Angeles California. She met and married her first husband Thomas Matthew Dunn in 1959 and raised two children Thomas Christopher Dunn and Lueleanor Leslie Aline Gambon (‘nee Dunn) in California. She married her second husband, Paul Arenson, in 1986.Lee was a supportive and loving mother, grandmother and friend. Generous in every sense, she supported her family and friends in all of their endeavors and celebrated their successes.
A lifelong learner, Lee attended high school at Ramona Convent of the Holy Names in the 1950s and her love of art took her to Cal State Los Angeles where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art and Social Science in 1967.After earning her California teaching credential in 1970, she worked as a public-school teacher. She went on to earn a master's degree in counseling psychology from the University of Santa Clara in 1976, became a licensed Marriage and Family & Child Counselor in 1980 and earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Psychology and Counseling from the University of San Francisco in 1981.
Lee’s love of art & travel spanned her entire lifetime, and she passed it along to her children. Her creativity and adventurous spirit took the family to Europe in 1970 where they spent the summer touring the continent in a new Volkswagen purchased for the trip and shipped back to the United States afterwards. Always a fan of the performing arts, she loved jazz concerts, theater and movies. And, she LOVED to read.
Lee followed her curiosity and pursued her passions most often through her work as an educator, writer and psychotherapist. Progressive and always in pursuit of ways to help her students and clients, she developed new teaching & counseling methods, became licensed in clinical hypnosis, founded Women’s Success Teams, Inc and was Director of the Center for Stress Reduction Research (SRR). She received post graduate training in Eye Movement Desentization Response (EMDR) and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).The latter took her into light therapy which she utilized in her practice and for the remainder of her personal life. She authored three books Aftershocks(2002), All is Well(2010), and All is Well 2(2011).Throughout her career, Lee helped many people overcome trauma and realize their full potential.
Lee is survived by both of her children and their spouses. Lee also leaves behind two grandchildren, John and Sophia Gambon. Donations can be made in her name to her much beloved KQED. Per her request, Lee’s ashes will be scattered on Monterey Bay in conjunction with a celebration of her life on May 19th, 2024.

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What a beautiful, full, rich life and what a wonderful tribute ❤