Experience

I am a California licensed marriage and family therapist and hold an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and a Juris Doctor degree.    I have undertaken extensive study in trauma and dissociation and various methods for healing.

Trainings

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

​Essential Skills Training, Vancouver (five monthly 3-day trainings, Dec., 2014 - May, 2015)
  • Immersion Training, Diana Fosha, Vancouver (July 28 - Aug. 1, 2014)
  • Core Training, Diana Fosha and AEDP faculty members, including analysis of videotaped therapy sessions, Kensington, CA (Sept., 2015-June, 2016)
  • Bi-monthly supervision under an AEDP faculty member, Miriam Marsolais, including analysis of videotaped therapy sessions, Kensington, CA (Oct., 2014 – April, 2015)
  • Workshop, "Restoring Resilience Using AEDP: Discovering Your Client's Capacity to Heal, Eileen Russell, San Rafael (Sept. 20, 2015)
  • Workshop, “Making Good Use of Suffering: Working with Pathogenic Affects, Intra-relational AEDP work with overwhelming emotional experience," Jerry Lamanga, San Rafael, CA (Feb. 15, 2015)
  • Workshops, “When Being an AEDP Transformance Detective Ain’t So Easy,” Diana Fosha, San Rafael (July 26, 2015); Vancouver (Aug. 2, 2014)
  • Workshop, “Undoing Aloneness,” Diana Fosha, Psychotherapy Networker Conference, Washington, D.C. (March, 2014)

EMDR Basic Training Part I and II​

  • 40 hours of training, Philip Manfield, Berkeley, CA (March/May, 2016)
The Art of EMDR: Treating Complex Trauma--R. Solomon/K. Martin
  • 4 day training March, 2022

Treating Complex Trauma with EMDR and Structural Dissociation Theory - Kathleen Martin, LCSW

  • 20 hours of training integrating EMDR (Nov., 2018)
  • 16 hours of training on treating dissociative phobias, dissociative table technique and using EMDR with dissociation (Jan., 2019)
At the Crossroads of Trauma Therapy - Rachel Walker, MFT
  • 2 day training integrating EMDR, Structural Dissociation, Attachment repair & IFS parts work  (April, 2018)
  • Assistant at yearly trainings (2019-2023)
IFS Online Circle --R. Schartz, P. Krause, & T. Herbine-Blank
  • 6 months training in 2021
eAcademy Training and Consultation--Ellert Nijenhuis
  • Jan. 2022- present
  • Enactive trauma therapy approach to dissociation

Ongoing Consultation Groups

  • Ongoing monthly EMDR/Dissociation/Trauma therapy consultation group with Rachel Walker (2016--present)
  • Monthly somatic consultation group with Kelley Callahan (May, 2017 - May, 2019)
  • Monthly IFS consultation group with Coleen West (6 months- 2019-2020)

Trauma Treatment Workshops-Bessel van der Kolk

  • Week-long experiential training in trauma treatment, including the use of structures, Esalen, CA (Feb., 2016)
  • 3-day workshop exploring the transformative effects of synchronicity, including the use of structures, Garrison Institute, NY (April, 2016)
  • 4-day experiential workshop exploring the capacity of psychodrama to restructure people's internal maps of their relationship to themselves and the world, West Stockbridge, MA (Nov., 2016)​​
  • Week-long experiential  training in trauma treatment, including the use of structures, Esalen, CA (Feb., 2017)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training

  • Level I professional training in somatic psychology, Janina Fisher & Kelley Callahan, six monthly 2 day trainings,  (Sept., 2016 - April, 2017)
  • Level II professional training in somatic psychology, ten monthly 3 day trainings (Sept. 2018 - July, 2019)​

Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma - Janina Fisher

  • Level I - 1200 minutes over 9 months (Sept., 2015 - June, 2016)
  • Level II - 1200 minutes over 9 months, (Sept., 2016 - May, 2017)
  • Level III- 1200 minutes (May, 2017 - Jan. 2018)

Hypnotherapy Training - HCH

  • 50 hours of training (Sept., 2017 - Dec., 2017)

Hakomi Institute of California 

  • Experiential Therapy with Couples (Oct. 24-26 and Nov. 7-9, 2014)
  • Advanced Couples Two Day Training (March, 2019)
  • Essential Skills Two Day Training (Sept. 27-28, 2014)
  • Beneath the Surface: Understanding Behavior through the Lens of the Hakomi Character Map (Aug. 1, 2015)
Comprehensive Resource Model
  • Basic Training (Nov. 6-9, 2019)
Understanding and Treating Disorganized Attachment and Dissociation: Exploring Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID) through the Lens of Interpersonal Neurobiology— Dan Siegel
  • Sept., 2022
AEDP for Couples
  • Immersion and Essential Skills Training (July, 2017) with David Mars and Karen Pando-Mars
Deep Brain Reorienting
  • Level 1 and 2 (April, May 2024)
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