I find fascination, vitality, and passion in my work and service to others.

I’ve been a therapist for 20 years. I offer a warm and authentic presence, and create a nurturing environment that encourages emotional healing and maturation. I don't hold back from challenging clients' limiting mindsets and beliefs that get in the way…

My psychotherapeutic work reflects my journey with making sense of my neurodivergence and tendencies, which dip in the domains of OCD, and ADHD.

I’m balanced, informed, and playful.

I have an affinity for working with people who experience autism, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, various learners, depression, life transitions, couples and parents. I’m currently doing more work with death, and the grieving process.

My clients often identify as “Gifted” and Highly Sensitive, high achievers, creative/artists, musicians, activists, visionaries, and empathic rebels.

I’ve worked extensively in residential treatment facilities for severely emotionally disturbed children/adolescents and their families having faced adverse life/family situations. This has been some of my most rewarding learning in compassion and empathy for those whose history has been rooted in injustice, oppression and trauma.

I weave in the teachings received globe trotting on our gorgeous planet. I am also very engaged with ideas and concept of Land Reciprocity, and Rewilding. Meditation is a daily practice; it brings a receptive, inspired, and engaged mind and Heart. On any given day, I roam the trails with my dog friend, a German Shepherd with a bit of an attitude.

I am a mother. This offers me daily perspective on the rewards, challenges, and learning lessons children and family life offers.

Studies:

  • B.A. Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal, and University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

  • B.A. Completion, California Institute of Integral Studies

  • M.A Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and recently, a certification in Psychedelics Therapies and Research.

  • Certificate in Psychedelic Research and Therapies, California Institute of Integral Studies

Professional experience:

  • Marin General Hospital, California Pacific Medical Center; individual & group therapy, leading grief groups, medical psycho-education for family members, inpatient bedside psychotherapy and counseling.

  • St Vincent School for Boys; Primary therapist for residents and family, family therapy for reunification, court representation, collateral with county, Equine Assisted Therapist for Equine Program, treatment plan writing, Training of staff members, case conference leading.

  • Consulting and Treatment for Residential Facilities for Individuals with dual and triple diagnoses with Dr. Megan Nolan; writing and implementation of treatment plan for inpatient individuals, training staff members, counseling with residents, group therapy.

  • Wellspring Psychotherapy Center; Individual therapy with adults, children, teens. Group consultation, case conference, writing of treatment plans and implementation.

  • Private Practice; See training and specialization below.

Trainings and Enrichment:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Tics-UCLA

  • Dialectal Behavior Therapy

  • Exposure with Response Prevention

  • Equine Assisted Therapy

  • Functional Behavior Analysis

  • Guided Imagery

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology

  • Internal Family System

  • Mindfulness

  • Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics

  • Somatic Experiencing

Specializations:

  • Autistic Spectrum

  • Anxiety and Mood Challenges

  • ADHD

  • Couples

  • Death and grieving

  • Gender Relations

  • Giftedness/Emergence

  • Integration of Entheogenic & Psychedelic Experience

    & Microdosing.

  • Life Transitions

  • Mothering/Parenting

  • Neurodiversity/Neurodivergence

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

  • Sex and Intimacy

  • Treatment Plans

  • Teenagers

  • Trauma, PTSD

  • Tics, Tourette