My Approach and background

My approach is warm, supportive and authentic. I’m looking for your aliveness, your spark of joy, and those places where you are ‘leaning’ toward something new and different. I’m also tracking for those places you get stuck and need some assistance.

My therapeutic orientation is holistic and deeply rooted in mindfulness and present moment experience. Our ‘now’ is significantly informed by our past and our environmental systems, so we will also look at how your closest people and communities have impacted your being-ness.

Professional Training and Certifications:

  • M.A. Somatic Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco (2015)

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) (2021, 2023)

  • Brainspotting (2020)

  • Hakomi: An experiential and mindfulness-based approach to Somatic Psychotherapy. Hakomi Institute of California, 2014-2019.

  • Re-Creation of the Self (R-CS) (2017-2019)

  • Psycho-Physical Therapy (2013-2015)

  • Prepare/Enrich Facilitator (Premarital and Marriage assessment tool)

  • M.A. Somatic Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco (2015)

  • B.A. in Art History from the University of Washington (1997)

I have personal experience working with depression, anxiety, career changes, divorce, relationship loss and grieving, and the struggle to reconnect with one’s creative source. I am LGBTQ friendly and am intimately familiar with some of the issues of discrimination and internalized shame facing people who aren't welcomed by their environment in the way they should be. In addition to my work as a therapist, I spend time reading neuroscience and trauma literature, hiking and mushroom hunting, yoga/meditation, making art and taking pictures. Past work has included 18+ years in the custom home-building industry and caregiving for the elderly with early Alzheimers.