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EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

I am a psychotherapist and Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I am a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies' Integral Counseling Program. 

My practice is very much influenced by Buddhist philosophy, Gestalt Awareness Practice and Parts Work, Feminist theory, Liberation Psychology, Psychodynamics and Attachment theory, and is Trauma-Informed using Polyvagal Theory and the mind-body connection. 

Having completed many couples therapy trainings and workshops, I have a full repertoire of tools to help couples work through an array of issues that arise in a two-person psychological system - including infidelity and navigating betrayal. Some of those tools come from PACT, or the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy. My couples work is also influenced by Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Imago Dialogue, and Non-Violent Communication (NVC). My trauma training comes from the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine and the teachings of Dr. Thema Bryant, Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden, and Bessel van der Kolk. I have participated in many process group trainings, including Gestalt and the Stanford T-group seminar, and have experience co-facilitating a weekly drop-in support group.

Work Experience:

  • Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, AMFT - couples and individual therapy, 2022 - Present

  • Greenacre Homes and School, School Therapist, June 2024 - Present

  • Liberation Institute, MFT Trainee, 2022 - 2022

  • Pierce Street Integral Counseling Center, MFT Trainee, 2021 - 2022

  • California Institute of Integral Studies, MA, MFT, 2022

  • SFAIDS Foundation, Outreach Volunteer - harm reduction group therapy for men who have sex with men , 2018 - 2019

Training:

  • The PACT Institute, Level 1 PACT Training, May 2024

  • National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Racial Confrontations, Systemic Racism, and Vicarious Trauma: How to Help Clients Navigate Them, 2023

  • National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Working with the Painful Legacy of Intergenerational Racial Trauma, 2023

  • Relational Life Institute , Trauma and Opportunity: The RLT Approach to Working With Infidelity, 2023

  • The PACT Institute, From Trauma to Trust: Treating Betrayal in Couples 2023

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Training, Level II, 2022

  • Pacific Gestalt Institute , “Being With What Is” Workshop Series, 2022

  • Stanford Contemplation by Design Summit, Trauma-specific Treatment Interventions including Contemplative Practices and Other Non-pharmacological Methods and Activities, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk., 2022

  • Stanford Graduate School of Business, T-Group Introductory Seminar, 2021

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