Since 1989 I have helped kids, couples, individuals, and families build and rebuild their relationships, take control of their emotions, overcome anger, grief, betrayal, self-harm, and depression and find a reason to enjoy life.
With a friendly, compassionate and humorous style of relating, I can help you deal with serious experiences and difficult events and guide you to create meaning and richness in your life.
My goal is to teach you how to put the power of tolerating strong emotions in your hands so that you are no longer ruled by negative thoughts and actions that may cause you pain or shame.
I am trained in the following:
- Gottman Marriage Therapy
- Mindfulness
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Anger Management
- Trauma Focused Treatment
As a Marriage and Family Therapist I have treated the following:
- ADHD
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attachment Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Complex Trauma
- Depression
- Emotional Dysregulation
- Life Transitions: Launching Children, Retirement, Divorce
- Marriage and Relationship problems
- Problems associated with Psychosis
Education:
Bachelor of Science, Psychology – Sonoma State University
Master of Science, Clinical Psychology – California Graduate School of Psychology, American School of Professional Psychology
Professional Experience:
- 31 years in Mental Health Services
- 16 years Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
- 21 Years in Residential Treatment
- 20 years in Private practice
- 1 year Anger Management groups
- 10 years Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Groups
- 10 years DBT individual Therapy
- 2 years Mental Health Insurance Case Management
Settings:
- Private Practice in Santa Rosa
- Victor Treatment Center, Santa Rosa / Willow Creek
- Braun Day Treatment
- Plumfield Academy
- Managed Health Network, Mental Health Insurance Corporation
Trainings:
- Mindfulness with Daniel Siegel – 2012
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Marsha Linehan – 2008
- Risking Connections, Trauma Focused Treatment with Daniel Smith – 2011
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Don Meichenbaum – 2011
- Gottman Marriage Therapy with John Gottman – 2001, w/ Lisa Lund – 2018
