Education

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• University of California, Berkeley, 2004, BA | Psychology and Art Practice

• Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012, MA | Masters Counseling Psychology​

Post-graduate training

• UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) Psychedelic  Facilitation Training Program (Berkeley, CA, September 2023 - May 2024)

• Fluence Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Theory & Methodology Training (Virtual, July 2023)

• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Summer Immersion Education in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy (Virtual, June-July 2023)

• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Therapy (AEDP) Essential Skills 1 (AEDP West, 2018) 

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Basic & Advanced Training (Sonoma Psychotherapy Training Institute, Fall 2015)

• Law & Ethics with an LGBTQ Focus (May 2015)

• Somatic Attachment Therapy 12-week Skills Training (Oakland, CA, Fall 2014)

• Trauma Resiliency Model - Level I (Trauma Resource Institute, August 2013)

• Steps To Love, a workshop for helping gay men navigate the dating world (March 2014)

Professional Affiliations

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• MAPS

• California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

• East Bay Therapist Association

• AEDP Institute/AEDP West

• Bay Area Open Minds

• Kink-Friendly Professionals

• Poly-Friendly Professionals

• Gaylesta

• California Board of Behavioral Sciences

• Alumni Association of Pacifica Graduate Institute

• Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley

• Independent Clinical Consultation Groups

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Perhaps everything that frightens us is, at its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love...when a sorrow rises up before you, greater than you have ever seen before; when a restlessness light and cloud shadows passes over your hands and over all your doing. You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. 

-Rainer Maria Rilke