About

Education

• Advanced candidate, Jungian Analytic Training program, C.G Jung Institute of San Francisco (2020- ongoing)

• California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, MFC #52664 (2012- present)

• M.A. Counseling Psychology, concentration in Integral Counseling, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco (2006-2009)

• B.A. World Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (2000-2003)

• School for International Training, Study abroad, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China (2002)

• Wilderness education, environmental ethics and nature philosophy in the backcountry, Southern Utah, Sierra Institute (2001)

Community Membership and Associations

• California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

• C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

• The School of Lost Borders

• The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS)

• Mountain Cloud Zen Center

Training

• Analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, September 2020- ongoing

• Continuing education, “Making Good Use of Suffering: Intra-Relational AEDP work with Overwhelming Emotional Experience,” training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Jerry Lamagna, LCSW, July 2020

• Continuing education, “Healing Relational Trauma: Tailoring Treatment to Presenting Attachment Styles,” training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Karen Pando-Mars, MFT, May 2020

• Continuing education, “Encountering the Numinous: Expanded States of Consciousness, Depth Psychotherapy, Analysis and Psychedelics,” C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, November 2019

• 9-day wilderness seminar on spirituality and the ineffable, “Let Go into the Mystery: The East Shield of Living and Dying,” Scott Eberle, MD and Cynthia Morrow, MFT, School of Lost Borders, October-November 2019

• Continuing education, “Transform Trauma Through Fierce Love,” training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Sueanne Piliero, Ph.D, October 2019

• “Working with Dreams,” The Foundation of the Sacred Stream, Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D, May-June 2019

• “Relationships and Power,” The Foundation of the Sacred Stream, Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D, March 2019

• “The Shamanic Journey,” The Foundation of the Sacred Stream, Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D, January 2019

• 6-day wilderness seminar on transformation in times of crisis, loss and trauma: “Dark Nature: Matrix of Initiatory Growth,” Meredith Little, co-founder of the School of Lost Borders, September 2018

• Continuing education, Nondual Wisdom and Psychology Conference, "The Transformative Power of Relationship," California Institute of Integral Studies, March 2018

• Psychoanalytic infant observation group, Beth Barmack, LCSW, August 2017-November 2018

• Weekly consultation and training in contemporary psychoanalysis, Hugh Grubb, Psy.D, MFT, 2012-2019

• Continuing education, "Ethical Territory in the Analytic Encounter: Stories from the Intersection of Two Lives," C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, 2015

• "The Infant Within: A Yearlong Course for Licensed Clinicians," C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, 2014-2015

• Continuing education, "Containing States of Mind: Working with Bion's Ideas in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy," Duncan Cartwright, Ph.D, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), 2014

• Continuing education, "Active Imagination and Analysis," Lori Goldrich, Ph.D and Robin Greenberg, MFT, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, 2013

• Continuing education, Nondual Wisdom and Psychology Conference, "Spiritual Bypassing, True Intimacy and the Challenge of Being Fully Human," California Institute of Integral Studies, March 2013

• 2-week immersion training in wilderness rites of passage, council, the art of mirroring and a 4-day vision fast, Ruth Wharton, LPC and Larry Hobbs, M.A., School of Lost Borders, October 2012

• 4-day vision fast and teaching in the Four Shields, Emerald North and Praveen Mantera, School of Lost Borders, February 2012

• Treating adult survivors of sexual abuse, Amy Pine, MFT, Survivor's Healing Center, 2012

• Internal Family Systems and eating disorders, Richard Schwartz, Ph.D, 2012

• Private practice internship with double mirror training in experiential therapies, Process Therapy Institute, Los Gatos, 2011-2012

• Psychotherapy internship with clinical training in Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning issues; anxiety disorders; clinical boundaries; HIV; depression; post-traumatic stress disorder; substance abuse and addictions, Family Service Agency of the Central Coast, Santa Cruz, 2011-2013

• Psychotherapy internship in counseling clinic and Lincoln High School with clinical training in gang issues and culture; rape trauma; grief and loss; cross-cultural issues in treatment; eating and dieting disorders; therapy with teens; couples therapy; family systems therapy, YWCA of Silicon Valley, San Jose, 2009-2011

• "The Art and Science of Lucid Dreaming," Coursework with Fariba Bogzaran, PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, Spring 2008

• Yearlong practicum as a psychotherapist trainee in Gestalt therapy, groups, and dreamwork, Lucanna Grey, MFT and Gieve Patel, MFT, Church Street Counseling Center, San Francisco, 2008-2009

• Child aide at West Portal Elementary School with clinical training in non-directive play therapy, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, San Francisco, 2007-2009

• "Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy," Coursework with Rob Fisher, MFT, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007

• Suicide Crisis Line Volunteer, 40 hours training in suicide and crisis prevention, Suicide Prevention Service, Family Service Agency of the Central Coast, Santa Cruz, 2005-2006