Education & Training

“Work makes life sweet.”
— Granny Dora

This is not a comprehensive list of my education and training, but offers education and training most relevant and supportive along my path

  • Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, with an emphasis in Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and & Feminism studies, Sonoma State University, graduated with distinctions in 2001 Sonoma County, California

  • Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, Antioch University, graduated in 2005 Santa Barbara, California

  • Providing counseling services since 2004 (20+ years direct experience in the field)

  • CA LMFT License #50162, licensed in 2011

  • OR LMFT License #T1301, licensed in 2017

  • Oregon Board Approved Clinical Supervisor, 2018

  • Ventura County Rainbow Alliance - counseling and HIV/AIDS services for LGBTQIA+ from 2004-2005

  • The Relational Center, studies in Relational Gestalt, anti-oppressive models of care, community & culture building, from 2008-2010 in Los Angeles, CA

  • Ongoing studies (since 2008) with Dan Siegel and The Mindsight Institute

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) trained and certified, 2018

  • Complex Trauma Training with Janina Fisher, 2019

  • Attachment Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma with Laurel Parnell, 2020

  • Relational Uprising, 2020

  • IFS trainings 2021-ongoing:

    • Internal Family Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide Through Clinical Applications of the IFS Model 

    • Dick Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems Master Class: Experience IFS in Action with Complex Trauma and PTSD

  • Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem & Carlin Quinn, 2021- ongoing

  • Unwinding the Trauma-Conflict Web: Loving Justice Skills for Transforming Culture with Kai Cheng Thom, Fall- Winter 2022