My goal is to provide a non-judgmental and compassionate space for my clients to explore their innermost thoughts and feelings.  My emphasis is always on emotional safety and my clients feeling understood and accepted.

Specialities:

  • Exploring shame and vulnerability

  • Developing self-compassion and self-care

  • Attachment-Focused EMDR

  • Moving beyond chronic patterns of self-criticism to developing a gentler and kinder response to ourselves

  • Recovering from perfectionism and learning how stop condemning yourself for your mistakes and perceived failures

  • Anxiety

  • Boundary-setting

  • Depression

  • Learning how to identify and connect to your own needs

  • Exploring childhood issues that may be showing up in your present life

  • Healing trauma (including a history of trauma/abuse in childhood as well as single incident trauma)

  • New parent issues

  • Sexuality from a sex-positive and LGBTQ-affirming position

  • Relationship and intimacy issues

 

Clinical Experience

  • Attachment-Focused EMDR Training Program at the Parnell Institute

  • American Association of Couples and Sex Therapists Training Program

  • Brainspotting Phase One Training

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training Program

  • Pacific Gestalt Institute Relational Gestalt Therapy Training Program

  • Certified in Trauma Resiliency Model Levels 1 & 2

 

Education

  • Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University

  • Bachelor of Arts, University of California Santa Barbara

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