ABOUT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC 86953)
My work is client-centered. I have built a practice on collaborative self-empowerment and helping people through transitions, relationships, stress, trauma, and quality of life issues. Addressing issues such as anxiety, depression, and grief all benefit from this somatic, emotional, and mindfulness approach to health and healing.
I have over 20 years of experience in mindfulness, meditation, and martial arts. This is accompanied with 15 years of advising, counseling, and professional development work with individuals and groups. I come from an enriched multicultural background; and, bring a strong cross-national understanding of diverse people and cultures from many years living and traveling internationally.
Focus of Practice
- Integrative Psychotherapy
- Multicultural
- Mindfulness
- Trauma
- Couples/ Individuals/ Children
The transformative aspect of my integrative therapy approach fosters client's development of clearer self-awareness, self-acceptance, and intuition. Through the practices of mindfulness and other modalities, this work taps into clients' intrinsic strengths and healing abilities. I bring a wide range of counseling experience, enjoy working with couples and individuals of all ages, and recognize uniqueness of each person and situation.
Clinical Training and Experience
B.A. in Religion and International Relations, Smith College
- Strength based Positive Psychology
- CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy)
- Neuroscience
- Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman trained, Certified in PREPARE/ENRICH (Couples Counseling)
- Play Therapy, Attachment Theory
- Somatic and energetic psychology, including Tapping.
EMDR (Eye Motion Desensitization Reprocessing) a brief therapy technique for the relief of symptoms caused by traumatic life experiences.
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) a mindfulness and skills based approach to develop emotional regulation.
Let's begin
Please call or email to arrange a session.