
Working as a psychotherapist in private practice for 16 years has been an honor.
I have learned a lot from my patients, supervisors, teachers and colleagues. Psychotherapy can be intimate, touching and inspiring. It can be deep and occasionally funny but at its core it is a serious matter. People come in to talk abut the hard stuff. After 16 years of private practice while raising two children, one foster baby and going through one pandemic I feel it is time for me to do other things.
I am hoping to do more writing, improv theater and to offer more trainings. I am open to offers for both paid and pro bono opportunities for teaching and collaborating around psychoanalytic theory, parenting, immigration and the politics of psychotherapy.
I have learned a lot from my patients, supervisors, teachers and colleagues. Psychotherapy can be intimate, touching and inspiring. It can be deep and occasionally funny but at its core it is a serious matter. People come in to talk abut the hard stuff. After 16 years of private practice while raising two children, one foster baby and going through one pandemic I feel it is time for me to do other things.
I am hoping to do more writing, improv theater and to offer more trainings. I am open to offers for both paid and pro bono opportunities for teaching and collaborating around psychoanalytic theory, parenting, immigration and the politics of psychotherapy.
Supervision: Group therapy supervision- Access Institute San Francisco, 2015 Yearly supervision at Piedmont School Wellness Center Training Director at Albany Elementary School Mental Health Internship Program 2006-2008 Private Practice Intern Supervisor 2009 Individual consultation for newly licensed therapists: 2010-Present Wright institute supervisor 2018 Additional Training: -Two years Infant Observation Study Group (led by Angela Sowa) - Yearlong Group Therapy Training Group (Led by Bill Roller) - EMDR Certificate training (Phil Mansfield/ Harriet Sage) - Attachment/Dynamic Systems Theory Study Group (Steve Seligman) - Neuroscience and psychoanalysis Study Group (Alan Schore; Maggie Zelner) Various psychoanalytic courses at NCSPP, SFCP and PINC |
Presentations: "Winnicott goes Viral": Class at the psychotherapy institute 2015 grand rounds at ACCESS institute 2015 presentation at APA Div. 39 conference in San Francisco 2015 "Attention in Early Relationships" UC Berkeley guest lecture in "The Neurobiology of Stress", 2015 Jerusalem Talpiot community clinic 2016 Grateful Heart Institute Berkeley 2018 "Can I have a BandAid" IFPE conference, Pasadena CA 2016 Other published writing in English: The tunnel a short story in Vise Versa, a University of Hawai'i Ezine "Marriage A-Z" in The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives" Edited by Autumn Stephans |