I believe that more harmonious expressions of our beingness are always there, ready to emerge.
Psychological and spiritual practices have informed the way I inhabit my life and how I think about meaning-making in the world.
I find the process of growth, self-discovery, steady releasing of limiting beliefs, and inhabiting a life of more freedom and spaciousness a thrilling part of being alive. It isn't easy, but is rewarding.
I draw on a fairly varied amount of life experience that has helped foster my openness and curiosity towards a wide range of people, perspectives, and experiences. In previous phases of my life, I taught community college, waited tables, hustled free-lance writing and editing gigs, and wandered around the world with a backpack. I've lived in Texas, Virginia, Hawaii, California, and Oregon.
I love learning and have more books in my home than I can keep up with. I am dedicated to using my skills, knowledge, relational presence, intuition, and humor to help my clients.
My educational background includes:
My therapeutic training has focused on:
Present-moment, mindfulness-based orientations such as Gestalt, Hakomi, and AEDP, Relational Psychodynamic work.
Training in Couples Counseling has included both attachment and differentiation models.
Specific trainings/teachers I have been fortunate to study with include:
I was the Teaching Assistant for the following graduate courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies:
I find the process of growth, self-discovery, steady releasing of limiting beliefs, and inhabiting a life of more freedom and spaciousness a thrilling part of being alive. It isn't easy, but is rewarding.
I draw on a fairly varied amount of life experience that has helped foster my openness and curiosity towards a wide range of people, perspectives, and experiences. In previous phases of my life, I taught community college, waited tables, hustled free-lance writing and editing gigs, and wandered around the world with a backpack. I've lived in Texas, Virginia, Hawaii, California, and Oregon.
I love learning and have more books in my home than I can keep up with. I am dedicated to using my skills, knowledge, relational presence, intuition, and humor to help my clients.
My educational background includes:
- California Institute of Integral Studies, 2011. MA, Integral Counseling Psychology
- Goddard College, 2006. MA, Psychology and Literature
- University of Richmond, BA, International Studies and Art History
My therapeutic training has focused on:
Present-moment, mindfulness-based orientations such as Gestalt, Hakomi, and AEDP, Relational Psychodynamic work.
Training in Couples Counseling has included both attachment and differentiation models.
Specific trainings/teachers I have been fortunate to study with include:
- Ongoing consultation in somatic and relational therapy with Wendy Heffner
- Hakomi Comprehensive Training, Assistant for Hakomi, META, Couples Counseling, and R-CS Somatic Psychotherapy Trainings, Consultation in Hakomi technique and Couples Therapy with Rob Fisher
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP )--assorted trainings
- Couples Institute training with Ellyn Bader
- Gestalt Training through Church Street Integral Counseling Center, SF and Bay Area Gestalt Institute: consultation and training with Lu Grey, Gieve Patel, and Frank Rubenfeld
I was the Teaching Assistant for the following graduate courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies:
- The Mindfulness and Compassion Certificate Program, Couples Counseling, Therapeutic Communication, The Clinical Relationship, Jungian Psychology and East-West Spirituality
