Bio and Credentials

I feel fortunate to be doing the work I do. I have 20+ years of experience maintaining a private practice in the Bay Area. I’ve also worked as a child/family therapist and served in clinical and leadership roles in the public health sector. Many therapeutic methods are inspiring and effective, and while I have studied and practiced several, I am most drawn to a contemporary psychoanalytic approach. However, I believe there is no one road to wellness and most of us travel down more than one. My work also is influenced by my decades long academic and personal study of Tibetan Buddhist contemplative philosophy and practice.

Education and training:

• MA, ICP program, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco (2000)

• post-graduate training at The Psychotherapy Institute (TPI) and Bay Area Community Resources (BACR)

• certificate of psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)

Current and former professional activities:

• faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), 2022-present

• clinical supervisor and instructor for several East Bay and San Francisco training organizations, 2004-present

• program director and group facilitator, WORLD-Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases, 2003-2010

• school-based therapist for West Contra Costa middle school students and families, 2001-2003

Affiliations:

• PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California)

• CAMFT (California Assn of Marriage Family Therapists)

• NCSPP (Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology)

• TPI (The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley)

• IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association)

Publications:

• Building Blocks to Peer Program Success, published by Boston University’s School of Public Health