About Therapy with Me
WHERE: All of my sessions are secure, online. I am a licensed therapist in California (lmft 88830) and Oregon (lmft T1149).
WHO: I work with busy professionals, parents, and driven people ages 30-80.
HOW: My style is engaged, collaborative and warm. I'm passionate about helping people heal and thrive. With equal parts support and challenge, that's when growth happens.
I am most influenced by attachment theory, psychodynamics, mindfulness, EMDR, and somatics; and I use elements from all of them. I'm guided by the trust that the path to greater well-being already exists inside you and it’s my job to help you discover it.
My Background
Before starting my private practice, I provided parent-coaching and adult psychotherapy for Psyched in San Francisco, a group practice where I still work remotely. Prior to this, I provided home visits at Through the Looking Glass where I received extensive training in parent-infant psychology, family systems, crisis intervention and disability psychology. I also trained at the Pierce Street Integral Counseling Center where I participated in intensive training in relational psychotherapy. I earned my master's degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies in 2011, and participate in advanced training and education in many diverse areas.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent years in the food and wine industry, in travel publishing, in the birth room as a doula, and in the corporate world. I've spent many years getting to "know my own darkness" as a psychotherapy client, which allows me to be more conscious clinician. The way I work and see the world has been profoundly influenced by my experience as a mother and partner, sister, daughter and friend as well as by the many challenges my loved ones and I have dealt faced.
My Training
- 2022-Present Developmental Model of Couples Therapy Training, Level II
- 2022 -Present ongoing Advanced Couples Therapy Consultation Michael Klein, PhD
- 2021-22 Develompemental Model of Couples Therapy, Level I
- 2019 EMDR Consultation, Ross Cohen
- 2018 EMDR Level I & Level II, Philip Manfield, Phd.D.
- 2017-18 Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma, Janina Fisher
- 2017 EFT Couples Forgiveness Training
- 2016: Shame, Self-Loathing & Complex Trauma Treatment: Somatic Interventions, Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
- 2015 Internship, Traci Ruble, LMFT
- 2012-14: Through the Looking Glass: In-home family therapy, Early Head Start home visitor, parent/infant psychology, families with disabilities, sensorimotor integration, temperament
- 2014: Newborn Observation training, Kevin Nugent
- 2014: Wisdom 2.0 Conference: Raising a Conscious Generation
- 2013: Neuroscience of Mindfulness & Love Conference, Jack Kornfield & Dan Siegel
- 2011 Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1
- 2011 Intern, Riyaz Motan, LMFT
- 2010 Hakomi Professional Training at CIIS with Rob Fischer