CREDENTIALS

• Licensed marriage/family therapist (MFC # 38351)


• Fifteen years of clinical experience: private practice, outpatient community clinic, acute care and residential psychiatric treatment settings.


• Clinical supervisor of intern and licensed therapists in residential outpatient, private practice and community clinic settings.


• Specialization: depression and anxiety disorders, relationship and stage-of-life adjustment difficulties, self-harm behaviors, social and familial and self-care deficits stemming from chronic/serious mental illness, problems of adolescence. Trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for persons diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.


• Multi-cultural sensitivity, gender and alternate lifestyle preferences.


• Unique and effective treatment modality combining conventional principles of insight-based psychodynamic, cognitive and humanistic/existential therapies with eastern, meditative and mindfulness focus.


• Practitioner of mindfulness meditation and Vajrayana yoga.