I am a Marriage and Family Therapist and Somatic Experiencing© practitioner who works with adults, couples and adolescent girls. I offer a warm and compassionate presence and seek to help my clients find within themselves the life they are longing to live. I blend together the practices of mindfulness, the teachings and theories of Buddhist psychology, Existential-Humanism, Attachment, Somatic practices and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

I believe in the necessity of clients sharing their stories, their unique traumas and pains, their struggles and triumphs. I also believe that, at times, it is vital to set the stories aside, to be with what arises and to be open to that unknown wisdom or longing. For who would you be without that story?

Whether our time together is short-term and issue specific or extended and more broad-reaching, I will offer tools to help you become more responsive to your life. I will seek to help you strengthen your sense of agency, and identify areas of choice and freedom in your life. I will strive to help you find your place of true belonging in the world.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

                               ~Mary Oliver

PUBLICATIONS
Existential Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Reprinted from Journal of Humanisitic Psychology, Vol. 45, No. 1, Winter 2005 pp 10-40

EDUCATION
Somatic Experiencing© Training, Somatic Experiencing© Training Institute
Community Dharma Leaders Program, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, California
Masters of Counseling Psychology, John F Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA
Masters of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Juris Doctorate, Lewis and Clark Northwest School of Law, Portland, OR
BA, History, Magna Cum Laude, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO