Therapist, Therapy, San Francisco, SF, Berkeley, Oakland, East Bay, Bay Area
Psychotherapy to nourish the self
Psychotherapist, Marriage Counseling, San Francisco, SF, Berkeley, Oakland, East Bay, Bay Area

2859 SACRAMENTO STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115
415-929-8502

1304 SOLANO AVENUE
BERKELEY, CA 94706
415-929-8502

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
I received my M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, in 1992 and my A.B. from Princeton University in 1984.

I have been a practicing psychotherapist since 1990 and in private practice, where I provide a range of therapy services, since 1995. For ten years, I was the Director of Counseling at an independent high school in San Francisco. I have been supervising therapists-in-training for nine years, most recently in the graduate clinical program at CIIS.

AREAS OF CLINICAL FOCUS
  • Empowering adults in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s to engage life, work and relationships more fully.
  • Helping individuals to resolve self-limiting beliefs that lead to depression, despair and a sense of power-lessness and meaninglessness in life.
  • Deepening self-acceptance by helping individuals to understand and transform the roots of depression, anxiety, shame, guilt, anger and aggression.
  • Helping adults to heal from childhood trauma and to reclaim the aliveness of their body, mind and spirit.
  • Rekindling relationship intimacy by helping partners to resolve old fears and bitterness, rebuild trust, and risk greater vulnerability and openheartedness.
  • Helping couples transform self-protective strategies that undermine intimacy, including withdrawal, criticism, defensiveness and contempt.
  • Empowering couples to navigate such transitions as moving in together, deciding to marry or start a family, dealing with infertility, adjusting to life with or without children, healing from affairs, launching adolescents.
  • Helping individuals who have had ruptures or impasses in a prior therapy prior therapists to rebuild trust and recommit to their self-growth.
  • Connecting to the sacred in everyday life.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist - San Francisco & East Bay Area, CA
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