BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE

My own journey of healing and transformation has significantly shaped who I am as a psychotherapist. My father died when I was young, and that experience profoundly altered my life. Later, as a young adult, I underwent a severe health crisis that prompted me to question the deeper nature of reality. These two pivotal experiences served as doorways to discovering my life’s greater purpose.

I have been a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist for over twenty years. I received my MS in Counseling from Dominican University and my BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado, with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies.

In addition to my private practice, I worked as a clinician and supervisor in a hospice setting for ten years. I also have extensive experience working with children, teens, and young adults in schools and community mental health settings.

For over 25 years, I have studied somatics (body-oriented therapy), mindfulness, and intuitive development under various teachers. I began my career by offering biofeedback but moved away from this modality when I discovered other approaches that didn't require technology and were equally effective. Since then, I have studied a variety of somatic theoretical orientations, that engage gross motor to fine motor movement to energetics.