Skilled in EMDR and Trauma Resiliency, Mindfulness, Regulation, Anxiety Management, Parenting Support,
Integrative Creative Arts
Couples psychotherapy emphasizing attachment and trauma processing.
Strong community and social services professional with Master's Degree, M.A., MFT focused in Counseling Psychology, Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Extensive repertory training in all aspects of theater performance. Vocal and singing production, dialect, text, physical comedy, musical theater, classical to contemporary, film.
Thesis, ProQuest, Half of the Sky: Integrating the Relational Right Brain in Adolescent Treatment Adolescent treatment has come to rely on behavioral correctives with an emphasis on autonomy. This emphasis neglects the importance of healing the relational capacity in order to build internalized security. Addressing insecure attachments enables adolescents to transform their internal working model established in their early life experiences, potentially enabling them to move forward confidently in the relational world ahead of them.
Early Childhood Trauma, Ecological, Cultural and Intergenerational Trauma, Mind/Brain/Body, and Synchronicity and Spiritual Experiences in Trauma
Donald Kalsched, Mark Epstein, Pat Ogden, Ruth Lanius, Allan Schore, Joseph Cambray, Fanny Brewster
Pacifica studies and training include a wide range of systems, including psychodynamic, somatic, family systems, child development, crisis and trauma, personality disorders, psychopharmacology, and extensive diversity and multicultural training, as well as Jungian psychotherapy. Depth psychology approaches clinical work by including dreams, myth, and the subconscious in accessing client's core issues and potential blocks to their goals, aliveness and internalized models.