With over seventeen years of clinical psychology experience,  I utilize evidence based (research-results oriented), treatment for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.  I also empower men and women, as a Life Coach in their personal, community, and business relationships.

My core philosophy is to personalize treatment/techniques to reduce symptoms, increase self-sufficiency, and enhance quality of life.  Emphasis is on compassion with collaboration in goal setting, and constant monitoring of progress.  Crucial aspects of my practice are to inspire clients through encouragement to learn and practice new skills.  At the end of therapy, individuals take with them life changing techniques, to incorporate into their daily lives.

With my specialty of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), I treat Anxiety, Depression (mood), and Eating Disorders.                                          

Goals of Cognitive Behavior Therapy

• My ultimate goal is to have client's lives restored to peace, optimism, and resiliency; and to provide the skills to navigate through life with confidence.

• Learning how to manage thoughts, language, intense emotions, and using food to regulate these emotions are a few of the symptoms that are the focus of CBT. 

• With CBT, homework is personalized to the goals of the client and performed between sessions.

•  Collaboration on homework reinforces the desired changes, and the forming of positive habits that build on the techniques/tools that maintain the positive changes.

• These changes are then incorporated into family, work, and other relationships that reinforce a positive way of interacting and communicating.

Experience

Training

• Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

• The Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development Stanford University School of Medicine

• Teaching assistant for graduate class of David Burns, MD, author of "Feeling Good Handbook"

• National Center for PTSD Clinical Training by the Department of Veterans Affairs (certified)

• The Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland

• Teaching Assistant for Hans Steiner, MD, “Normal Development, Psychopathology and Treatment for Childhood and Adolescent”, Stanford University Continuing Education, Stanford, CA

Dissertation (empirically/statistically valid)

• "An Investigation Of Factors Such As Defense Mechanisms And Spirituality That May Be Associated With Life Satisfaction for Black Americans"

Past Guest Lectures

• Assessing and Working With Suicidal Youth

• Bipolar Disorder Life and Relationships

• Life Changes and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Stress Management to Avoid Burnout

• Interracial Couples

• What is a Healthy Mind

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – Not Just for Veterans

 Work

• Manager, Stanford Children’s Health/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – 1995 to 2002

• Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts - 1993 to 1994

Education

• BA - Biological Science

• BS - Health Science

• MA - Health Care Administration

• MS - Clinical Psychology