About Me

My Background

While earning my B.S. in Earth Systems Science and Policy at CSU, Monterey Bay I began working with farmworkers in the Salinas Valley in a program that helped people become independent, organic farmers. While I loved the environmental side of things, it was the human connection that resonated most with me, leading me to volunteer in the Peace Corps in Zambia.

On my return I worked with low-income and diverse adults in job training programs, in outreach, and in drug rehabilitation. In 2009, I began working as a therapist and earning my doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD). During that time I worked in the schools, in community clinics with adults and children, and provided in-home therapy to house-bound seniors. I currently have my own full time private practice where I provide therapy to teens and adults and offer supervision to training psychologists and early career clinicians.

I have an ongoing interest in trauma-informed depth therapy. To this end I regularly take part in trainings, group and private consultation, and I supervise, read, and write about psychodynamic psychotherapy. I was also the Managing Editor of Impulse, the monthly newsletter for the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, for six years.