Credentials, Training, & Affiliations

License & Certification

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Oregon, L5191 (2011)
  • Certified Hakomi Therapist (2004)
  • Level 2 Trained PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Therapist

Degrees

  • Master’s in Social Work, Portland State University (2009)
  • Master’s in Transpersonal Therapy, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (1999)
  • Bachelor of Science in Biology with teaching credentials, secondary science and math, University of Colorado, Boulder (1987)

Work Experience

  • Private Practice Psychotherapist, Ashland, OR, since 1994
  • Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Intern Therapist, Genesis Recovery, Central Point, OR (2007–2008)
  • Southern Oregon University Health & Wellness Intern Therapist, Ashland, OR (2008–2009)
  • Community Educator, Group Facilitator, Teen Grief Program Developer, Bereavement Supporter for WinterSpring, Center for Living with Loss & Grief, Medford, OR (1992–2000)
  • Developed and Facilitated Embodied Knowing Movement-Oriented Personal Growth Groups, Ashland, OR (1998–2005)

Professional Affiliations

  • The Hakomi Institute
  • The PACT Institute
  • Oregon Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers
  • Colorado Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers
  • US Association for Body Psychotherapy

Trainings

  • PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Level 2 Coach (2024)
  • PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Level 1 Coach (2023)
  • Racial Trauma and Anti-Racism in the Therapy Room (2023)
  • Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma (2023)
  • Re-Creation of the Self (2023)
  • Presence: A Doorway to Ethics (2022)
  • PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Level 1 Training (2021)
  • BDSM in the Therapy Room (2021)
  • PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Level 2 Training (2021)
  • Traditional Therapeutic Boundaries and Digital Ethics (2020)
  • Brain to Body, Body to Brain: The Relational Nature of Shame (2020)
  • Helping Clients Unlearn Their Pain: The New Neuroscience of Pain (2020)
  • Cannabis Use Disorder: Inconvenient Truths (2019)
  • Breakthrough Results with Difficult Men (2019)
  • Re-Creation of the Self (2019)
  • Fast Sex Slow Love: New Pathways to Commitment (2018)
  • Transforming Sexual Narratives (2018)
  • A Case for Porn (2018)
  • Sex-Starved Marriage (2018)
  • Rethinking Sex (2018)
  • Shame Shields (2018)
  • Dance of Sex (2017)
  • Mystery of Eroticism (2017)
  • Managing Risk In Your Mental Health Practice (2017)
  • New Rules of Love (2017)
  • We Are the Tools of Our Trade: How the Therapists’ Attachment Patterns Shape Therapy (2017)
  • Healing Intergenerational Trauma with No One to Blame (2016)
  • Shame and Dissociation in Complex Trauma Disorder (2016)
  • Transgender Emergence: Beyond Caitlyn Jenner (2016)
  • Couples Therapy and Couples Sexuality (2016)
  • Hearing Voices and Cultivating Internal Dialogue (2016)
  • Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychosis: Cognitive Behavioral and Other Approaches (2016)
  • CBT for Psychosis: an Individualized, Recovery-Oriented Approach (2016)
  • Quieting the Shame Response: the Journey Toward Self-Compassion (2015)
  • Taking the High Road: Ethical Considerations and Requirements (2015)
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders, The International Society for Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2014)
  • Clinical Supervision – 30-hour course, Portland State University (2014)
  • Dancing with the Risks: Safe Steps, Tricky Steps, Landmines (2013)
  • Skills for Supervision (2013)
  • DSM-V: What’s New? What’s Different? (2013)
  • Traumatic Attachment and Affect Dysregulation (2013)
  • Legal and Ethical Issues in Behavioral Health in Oregon (2013)
  • Re-Creation of the Self: An Existential Approach: Advanced Training (2012)
  • Boys Will Be Men: Psychotherapy for Men and Boys (2012)
  • Psychiatric Medications: The Way Forward (2012)
  • Escaping the Porn Trap (2012)
  • Love & War in Intimate Relationships: A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (2011)
  • Group Crisis Intervention (2011)
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Somatic Resources, Body Awareness, and Physical Action in the Treatment of Trauma (2011)
  • Motivational Interviewing: Enhancing Skills to Facilitate Change (2011)
  • It’s All in the Family: a ProcessWork Approach to Working with Children & Families (2011)
  • Brainspotting, Phase 1 (2010)
  • Brainspotting: Working with Attachment and Dissociation (2010)
  • Dual Diagnosis and Multi-Morbidity (2010)
  • Using the DSM to Measure Treatment Success (2010)
  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (2009)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (2009)
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Mindfulness, Emotion, & Movement: Expanding the Regulatory Boundaries of the Window of Tolerance (2009)
  • Advances in Chemical Dependency and Mental Health Treatment (2008)
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexual Issues (2008)
  • The Theory & Practice of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (2007)
  • A Harvest of Strategies for Treating Eating Disorders (2007)
  • Models of Therapeutic Action (2007)
  • Motivational Interviewing Introductory Course (2007)
  • Collaborative Couple’s Therapy (2007)
  • Clinical Approaches to Chronic Self-Injury, Mutilation, and Harm Syndromes (2007)
  • Parental Empowerment: Helping Parents with Challenging Children (2006)
  • Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (2006)
  • Lifespan Integration, Level 1 (2006)
  • Right Use of Power (2006)
  • Mind Matters: Neurobiological and Attachment Narratives in Clinical Practice (2006)
  • Matrix Model: Relational Leadership (2005)
  • Crucible Approach: Integrating Marital and Sex Therapy (2005)
  • Child & Teen Sex Abuse (2005)
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Somatic Interventions for Working with Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation (2005)
  • Establishing Fundamental Sanity: Buddhism and Psychotherapy (2005)
  • Narrative and Collaborative Therapeutic Approaches (2005)
  • Intimacy, Relationships, and the Role of the Strategic Self (2005)
  • Nondual Wisdom in Psychotherapy (2005)
  • Respecting Choices: Advanced Care Planning Facilitators Training (2004)
  • Strageties in Family Therapy: Creating a Partnership for Change (2004)
  • Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder from a Trauma Perspective (2003)
  • Gymnasium of the Body, Mind, & Soul: Fitness Training for Counselors (2002)
  • The Neurobiology of Addiction (2002)
  • Client Defenses and Their Clues to the Clinician (2002)
  • The Enneagram of Liberation (2001)
  • Laws & Ethics: Beyond the Basics (2001)
  • Beyond Normal Grief (2000)
  • Establishing a Children’s Grief Support Program (2000)
  • Assessment and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Current Status and Future Trends (2000)
  • The Grieving Child (1999)
  • A Transpersonal Investigation into Death & Grief (1999)
  • Transpersonal Approach to Creative Expression (1998)
  • NIA (Neuro-Muscular Integrative Action) Technique, White Belt Training, Portland, OR (1998)
  • Re-Creation of the Self: An Existential Approach (1997)
  • Life & Loss: Living and Dying in the Family System (1996)
  • Grief of Children and Teens (1995)
  • The Hakomi Method: Two-year training (1994)
  • Volunteer Training for WinterSpring Center for Living with Loss and Grief (1992)
  • Yoga and Ayurveda Therapy Certificate, Colorado Herbal Institute (1991)
  • Ayurveda Practitioner Training, Ayurvedic Institute, NM (1991)
  • Taoist Healing (1989)