Training and Experience

I was trained in evidence based attachment, relational psychoanalytic, and trauma informed, therapies for children, individuals and couples at the Smith College School of Social Work and a two year intensive post-graduate fellowship at the Access Institute in San Francisco. I'm in an advanced study program to become a psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC).

 

I’m currently on the teaching faculty and the steering committee at the Access Institute and the Coalition for Clinical Social Work (CCSW), the social work wing of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. I've engaged continuing education focusing on  complex trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, working with marginalized identities and backgrounds, climate change, mindfulness and spirituality, working with gender norms and expectations, and others.

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I also have an extensive background in community mental health, most recently with UCSF Citywide, as well as in organizing, including in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua, with LGBTQIA+ communities, and with labor, all of which informs my work.

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I was most recently a featured presenter on two panels as part of CCSW clinical evenings: Walking into the Fire: Talking about Race, Racism, and Culture in the Clinical Relationship; and What Does It Take: Working with Disorganized Minds in Community Settings; and one panel for the Sanville Institute: The Challenges Facing the Unhoused Mentally Ill: Clinical Perspectives.