My educational and training experience includes:

• Masters in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA

• Practicum training program at Queer LifeSpace in the Castro, SF

• Mentorship in Somatic work, IFS parts-work, and Structural Dissociation frameworks under the wing of Dario Martinez, LMFT

• Somatic Experiencing: Releasing the Body from the Bonds of Trauma: A Somatic Approach to Healing Abandonment Issues and Attachment Wounds with Peter Levine (PESI)

• Shamanic (Shamanic Institute)
  

Frequently Recommended Resources:

Not everyone wants homework outside of therapy sessions, but for those who do, here are some of the resources I frequently recommend:

Books

• The Enchanted Life - Sharon Blackie

• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

• My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem

• Waking the Tiger - Peter Levine

• No Bad Parts - Richard Schwartz

• Codependent No More - Melody Beattie

• Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg

Films

• Inside Out (1 & 2)

• Encanto

Groups and Organizations

• Peer Support Group: Codependents Anonymous (CODA) - coda.org

• Peer Support Group: Adult Children of Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families (ACOA) - adultchildren.org

• Additional Peer Support Groups and Organizations:

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)

  • Mental Health Association of San Francisco (MHASF)

Free and Low-Cost Support

• 24/7 Non-emergency Support (free): The California Peer-Run Warm Line

  • 855-600-WARM (9276)

  • mentalhealthsf.org/warm-line

• Low-cost therapy:

  • Queer LifeSpace (SF, CA) - queerlifespace.org

  • Wright Institute clinic - wi.edu/wi-clinical-services-wi-clinic 

  • California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) clinics - ciis.edu/ciis-in-the-world/counseling-clinics

  • Open Path Collective, network of affordable therapists in the U.S. - openpathcollective.org