Based in North Berkeley, I am a psychotherapist and expressive arts therapist. I hold a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies, where I currently teach, and I am also licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
I launched my private practice in January 2017 after five years of working in community mental health. My decision to focus my work on the support of self-identified women and girls was both personal and political. To learn more about that, feel free to check out this blog post.
I do my best to bring warmth, humor and authenticity to my work with clients, and incorporate the healing power of the arts with client-centered and intersectional feminist therapy frameworks. I also integrate evidenced-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); and Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques; as well Narrative Therapy practices to increase resiliency and adaptive behaviors.
Prior to private practice, I worked with foster and probation youth, transitional-aged youth, as well as their providers and families. I worked in residential, drug treatment, day treatment and outpatient facilities where I provided crisis management, individual and dyadic therapy, group therapy, family therapy and multi-family group therapy. Additionally, I've led trainings for therapists, teachers and other mental health providers on a number of trauma-related issues, as well as the use of expressive arts therapy in addressing issues of culture, race and gender.
I have special clinical interest in:
When I'm not working with clients, I can be found creating my own art, spending time with the people I love, or daydreaming ... which is one of my favorite activities.
I launched my private practice in January 2017 after five years of working in community mental health. My decision to focus my work on the support of self-identified women and girls was both personal and political. To learn more about that, feel free to check out this blog post.
I do my best to bring warmth, humor and authenticity to my work with clients, and incorporate the healing power of the arts with client-centered and intersectional feminist therapy frameworks. I also integrate evidenced-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); and Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques; as well Narrative Therapy practices to increase resiliency and adaptive behaviors.
Prior to private practice, I worked with foster and probation youth, transitional-aged youth, as well as their providers and families. I worked in residential, drug treatment, day treatment and outpatient facilities where I provided crisis management, individual and dyadic therapy, group therapy, family therapy and multi-family group therapy. Additionally, I've led trainings for therapists, teachers and other mental health providers on a number of trauma-related issues, as well as the use of expressive arts therapy in addressing issues of culture, race and gender.
I have special clinical interest in:
- Identity development
- Race, culture & gender
- Cultivating resiliency and Post Traumatic Growth
- Creativity and healing
- Spiritual Emergence
When I'm not working with clients, I can be found creating my own art, spending time with the people I love, or daydreaming ... which is one of my favorite activities.