Professional Experience
- 20+ years experience clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, and Palo Alto/Menlo Park
- 2 years pre-licensure psychological assistantship to Dr. Irvin D. Yalom
- Post-doctoral work with Dr. David Spiegel at Stanford University, including observation and discussion of ongoing psychotherapy groups with women with metastatic breast cancer
- APA accredited pre-doctoral internship at UC Davis, including teaching at UC Davis Medical School; supervision of pre-doctoral practicum clinical psychology students; co-leading Eating Disorder group psychotherapy; leading Yalom-style group psychotherapy; outreach program for LGBT students; review and selection of incoming applicants for APA internship.
- Psychoanalytic training at Wright Institute Clinic and Westside Crisis Clinic (formerly Mt. Zion)
- HIV sex workers outreach/education/testing UCSF
- Alzheimer’s Clinic Langley Porter UCSF, multidisciplinary assessment
Research
APA Poster on Long-Term Effectiveness of Training in Clinical Psychology
Doctoral Dissertation on the Long-Term Effectiveness of Training in Clinical Psychology
Master’s Thesis research in Shame in Adults and their Family of Origin Experiences
Research Assistant to I.D. Yalom, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
Education
BA, UC Berkeley, English Literature
MA, the Wright Institute Berkeley (APA accredited)
PhD, the Wright Institute Berkeley (APA accredited)
Affiliations
American Psychological Association Society of Clinical Psychology, Division12
California Psychological Association
Northern California Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology