I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice for over 25 years and work with individual adults and couples of all sexual orientations. I offer a warm, empathic and spacious environment for you to explore what you need to be the person you want to be.
My work is informed by depth psychology, transpersonal, relational, somatic and trauma-sensitive therapies. As a feminist and social justice oriented therapist, I understand that we are deeply influenced by the social context we live in and also respond uniquely depending on our individual personalities and life experiences.
Common issues I am experienced working with include: anxiety, abuse and neglect, chronic illness, invisible disabilities, depression, aging, caretaker self care, racial and ethnic identities, and oppressions of race, class, size and gender nonconformity.
I completed my MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University. After interning at Operation Concern, a mental health agency in San Francisco serving the LGBT population, I was a volunteer clinician, supervisor and trainer there for 10 years. I studied at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in SF and completed a two-year class with master analysts at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
My somatic psychotherapy training includes Psycho-Physical Therapy with Bill Bowen, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Part I) with Janina Fisher, Re-Creation of the Self with Jon Eisner and the Professional Training at the Hakomi Institute of California.
I am a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and Gaylesta, the LGBTQ Psychotherapy Association of the Bay Area, where I served on the board and am past president. I am licensed with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.