I have a long history with alternative medicine, having worked for years as a massage therapist and energy movement and healing. I have done extensive personal research with herbs and chakra healing. Due to this background and former career, I have a great deal of experience with the way we carry experiences, emotions, psychological states, and stress in our bodies, and with the the ways our body and mind can profoundly impact each other. Also I have extensive experience with children. I am currently a Marriage and Family Therapy Associate with Greatful Heart Hollistic Therapy Center, trained in a holistic Master of Arts counseling program with a specialization in Somatics incliding such modalities as Body-Mind Centering, Sensory Motor, exercise and movement (such as trauma informed yoga), Bodynamics, sound (music and/or chanting), and movement, with additional specfic training focused on trauma. I am also exploring biopsychology, neuropsychology, and human relations and interactions.
My Associate Number is #AMFT103237. My supervisor through Grateful Heart is Renee Beck, LMFT #21060.
Education
JFKU Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology with Somatic specialization
Current Affiliations / Licenses / Registrations
- Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #AMFT103237 California Board of Behavioral Services
- California Association of Marriage Family Therapist (CAMFT)
- East Bay CAMFT
- Psychology Today
Modalities that I will draw from in our work
- Attachment Based
- Humanistic Psychotherapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- ​EcoTherapy
- Feminist Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
- Energy work/ Healing
- Authentic Movement (Witnessed Movement Processing)
- Hakomi Method
- Somatic Experiencing
- Regulation and Window of Tolerance work
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
- Brainspotting
- Family Systems Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Play Therapy (games and Sand Tray work)
- Mindfullness- Ho’oponopono, Deep Breathing and Meditation