Background
— Offering leading models of therapy, drawing on 30 years of professional experience.
— Licensed to practice at the doctoral level in Colorado and California.
I work from an Interpersonal Neurophysiological framework, offering Psychodynamic, Experiential and Internal/Family Systems models of psychotherapy.
Longterm or brief therapy models of treatment, individualized to your needs, following the best that evidence (clinical research) and experience have to offer.
— Internationally published in peer-reviewed journals, Attachment and Human Development and the Infant Mental Health Journal
INFANT-FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH
I provide parent education and supportive consultations on development, interactive play and effective parenting from pregnancy through adolescence. Therapy for parents with their infants and children is offered to support the child’s wellbeing and earliest relationships in the face of loss, transition, separation, trauma, illness, injury, delay, disability, prenatal/postpartum depression, etc.
— Accomplished in School Psychology Evaluations, Clinical Psychology Evaluations and Developmental Psychology Evaluations
EVALUATIONS
I provide cognitive, social-emotional, behavioral and 0-5 developmental assessments to guide health and education interventions and parenting for optimal development.
2015
QUALIFICATIONS
1987
— Post-doctoral certifications in a leading treatment model for Post-Traumatic Stress
TRAUMA
I am a certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Clinician, level II. This leading therapeutic model integrates the mind and body to treat complex trauma (e.g., multiple/ interpersonal traumas) or single incident trauma (e.g., a life-threatening accident). Trauma processing is always done from a place of calm strength.
— Specialized degree in the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH APPROACH
Integrate many aspects of your lifestyle (physical, social, spiritual, cultural and environmental) into your psychotherapy.
— Expertise in the treatment of issues facing women’s and girl’s
EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS
From roundtable discussions at the Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls to my technical advisory positions at UNICEF and UN Women, I have advocated for the rights and advancement of women and girls. I partner with RESPONSE, in Aspen, to treat women survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. I support girls and women to find their way through the gender-based power dynamics in relationships, institutions and society, to their voices, to their true selves, to their best lives.
2015 Licensed Psychologist in Colorado, PSY42552004-2007 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Certifications I & II, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, CO 2000-2002 Infant Mental Health Specialist Certificate, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA (prior to state certification)2001-2003 Faculty, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA2001 Licensed Psychologist in California, PSY171211993-2000 Research, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA, CA1998 Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, CA1997 Masters in Theology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, CA1993 Registered Psychologist, CA1993 Masters in Clinical Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, CA1989 Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, NY1987-1988 Research, Cochin Maternity Hospital, Paris, France