About Me

I was born in Northern New Mexico and attended art school in Kansas City and Chicago. After graduation, I moved to Santa Fe to paint where I had my first experience of the transformative power of analytic psychotherapy. I worked with a Jungian Analyst who introduced me to the work of Carl Jung and to the symbolic meanings in dreamwork.

In my mid-forties, I return to school to study a classical style of painting and re-entered Jungian Analysis. Tracking my dreams and shifts in energy lead me to become aware that the next step in my life’s journey was to become a psychotherapist. Heeding that call, I attended the California Institute for Integral Studies where I earned a Masters degree in counseling psychology.

In addition to seeing patients online, I am a candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco and participate in an ongoing psychodynamic infant observation group. My creative outlets include collage, painting, and writing. For leisure, I enjoy hiking, cooking, and reading.

 
“Every phenomenon on earth, is a symbol and every symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready to do so, can penetrate to the depths of the world, where you and I, day and night, become one....”
— Hermann Hesse

training

  • Analytic Training Program of the C.G Jung Institute of San Francisco, Fall 2019 to present.

  • Year Long Program for Professionals, C.G.Jung Institute, San Francisco, September 2012 - April 2019

  • Infant Observation, Nancy L. Bakalar MD. December 2018 to present

  • Infant Observation, Beth Barmack, LCSW, June 2012 - November 2018

  • Internship, New Perspectives Center for Counseling, January 2015 - June 2017

  • School Counselor, Our Lady of Loretto, Novato, K - 8, March 2016 - May 2016

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level Two, Berkeley, May 2014 - May 2015

  • Internship, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, January 2013 - August 2014

  • Emotionally Focused Training for Couples, (EFT), Community Institute for Psychotherapy September 2013 - May 2014

  • School Counselor, Miller Creek Middle School, Terra Linda, September 2013 - May 2014

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level One, Berkeley, May - December 2013

  • Trainee, Church Street Counseling Center, San Francisco, January 2012 - February 2013

  • Hakomi, First Year Training March-December 2011

    Education

  • Master of Arts, Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, August 2010 - December 2012

  • Bachelor of Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, January - December 2009

  • Associate Degree, American Academy of Art, Chicago, 1975 - 1979

  • Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, 1973 - 1974