Credentials, Training, & Affiliations

License & Certification

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Oregon, L5191 (2011)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Colorado, CSW09928641 (2022)
• Certified Hakomi Therapist (2004)
• Level 2 Trained PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Therapist (2021)

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 1 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 2 Training (2021)
• BDSM in the Therapy Room (2021)
• PACT (Psycho-Biological Approach to Couple Therapy) Level 1 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)