My Background

Degrees and License:

– Marriage and Family Therapist California license MFT #8199
– Private practice in Santa Cruz since 1977
– California state licensed CEU provider since 2006
– California Community College Teaching Credential
– California Community College Counseling Credential

– BA University of California at Santa Cruz in psychology
– MA the University of Santa Clara in counseling psychology
– MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts from the University of California at Irvine

Association Memberships:

– California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
– Santa Cruz chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
– Monterey Bay Psychology Association
– Santa Cruz Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society

Areas of interest and advanced study:

– Buddhist psychology
– Contemporary feminisms
– Existential/phenomenological psychotherapy
– Mindfulness Stress Reduction
– Neuropsychology
– Relational psychoanalysis
– Somatic therapies (dance therapy, bioenergetics, medical QiGong, yoga)
– Trauma and Recovery