About Me...

I received a masters degree in clinical psychology with an emphasis in

somatic psychology (mind-body connection) from Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.

The education was rich with research in trauma, attachment theory, prenatal psychology, and neuroscience. My interest in the body-mind connection grew out of my passion for holistic medicine and my undergraduate education in child development and family and marriage therapy.

I have also received extensive training in psychodynamic therapy which emphasizes how our life experiences from early childhood on can cause dissonance in our daily life.  This age old form of therapy combined with the cutting edge research of somatic psychology provides an integrated approach to uncovering and discovering the many layers of the human psyche and soma.

I am a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (www.camft.org), and the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (www.usabp.org).