CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
Masters in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Somatics
(2005)
AEDP (ACCELERATED EXPERIENTIAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY) Level 2 Practitioner
AEDP seeks to clinically make neuroplasticity happen. Championing our innate healing capacities, AEDP has roots in and resonances with many disciplines — among them interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, emotion theory and affective neuroscience, body-focused approaches, and last but not least, transformational studies.
Through undoing of aloneness, and through the in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, as well as new transformational experiences, the AEDP clinician fosters the emergence of new and healing experiences for the client, and with them resources, resilience and a renewed zest for life.
AEDPFC LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATION TRAINING, 2018-2019
“Rather than seeking to find the problems that the couple has, the therapist who is practicing AEDPfC (AEDP for Couples) focuses on discovering and amplifying the strengths of the couple relationship and softening the defenses that have been keeping these natural capacities from emerging in a more full and stable way. Subtle and overt signs of the felt experience of love are evoked in each couple member from the first moment of the first session.”
-cited from the AEDP Institute website
COUPLES INSTITUTE TRAINING, 2018-2019
Led by local legends Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, this year-long training intensive teaches the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy and explains normal and natural stages and struggles that growing couples encounter. The model provides a structure for couples therapy by identifying the developmental task, developmental stalemate, diagnosis and specific treatment interventions for each stage of development.
BRAINSPOTTING, Level 1, November 2021
Brainspotting locates points in the client’s visual field that help to access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. Brainspotting (BSP) was discovered in 2003 by David Grand, Ph.D.
CHILD-PARENT PSYCHOTHERAPY (CPP)- Rostered Clinician
Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an intervention model for children ages birth to 5 years who have experienced at least one traumatic event (e.g. maltreatment, the sudden or traumatic death of someone close, a serious accident, sexual abuse or exposure to domestic violence), and who are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems as a result.
The treatment model integrates psychodynamic, attachment, trauma, cognitive behavioral and social-learning theories into a dyadic treatment approach designed to restore the child-parent relationship and the child’s mental health/developmental progress that have been impacted by the experience of trauma. Child-parent interactions are the focus of the intervention modalities aimed at restoring a sense of mastery, security and growth, and promoting congruence between bodily sensations, feelings, and thinking on the part of both the child and parent and their relationship with one another. Treatment also focuses on contextual factors that may affect the caregiver-child relationship (e.g. cultural norms, socioeconomic and immigration-related stressors).
INFANT-FAMILY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH (IFECMH) SPECIALIST ENDORSEMENT ELIGIBLE
(Application in progress)
http://cacenter-ecmh.org/professional-development/categories/mental-health-specialist/
REFLECTIVE FACILITATORS-IN-TRAINING, COMPONENT OF THE HARRIS EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAM, 2015-2017 COHORT
The Harris Early Childhood Mental Health Training Program (ECMHTP) is designed to provide foundational, conceptual and applied information related to infant and early childhood mental health in both preventive intervention and treatment settings. With a strong emphasis on cultural humility, this seminar is set up to build understanding about the theoretical and applied foundations of reflective supervision, and to build and expand skills.
CASE CONSULTATION GROUP WITH DR. ALICIA LIEBERMAN 2012-2014
Present and discuss clinical cases and issues related to supervision with other clinical supervisors and practicing Child-Parent Psychotherapy clinicians in a group facilitated by Dr. Alicia Lieberman.
CHILD TRAUMA ACADEMY NEUROSEQUENTIAL MODEL OF THERAPEUTICS TRAINING & PHASE 1 CERTIFICATION (Dr. Bruce Perry) (2012-2013)
The Neurosequential Model is a developmentally-informed, biologically-respectful approach to working with at-risk children. This approach integrates core principles from neurodevelopment, developmental psychology, traumatology, sociology and a range of other disciplines to create a comprehensive understanding of the child, family, and their broader community. The Neurosequential Model is not a specific therapeutic technique or intervention; it is a way to organize the child’s history and current functioning. The goal of this approach is to structure assessment of the child, the articulation of the primary problems, identification of key strengths and the application of interventions (educational, enrichment and therapeutic) in a way that will help family, educators, therapists and related professionals best meet the needs of the child.
http://childtrauma.org/nmt-model/
CIRCLE OF SECURITY PARENTING
(2011)
Circle of Security Parenting Training© is a newly developed DVD parent education program offering the core components of the evidence-based and internationally acclaimed COS® protocol. This 4-Day seminar trains professionals to use an eight chapter DVD to educate caregivers. The program presents video examples of secure and problematic parent/child interaction, healthy options in caregiving, and animated graphics designed to clarify principles central to COS®. Circle of Security Parenting© implements decades of attachment research in an accessible step-by-step process for use in group settings, home visitation, or individual counseling.
APPLYING EARLY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH TO ANALYTIC THEORIES AND THERAPIES
STUDY GROUP, Facilitated by Stephen Seligman, D.M.H.
(2011)
Participants in this study group meet quarterly to explore links between current attachment/ intersubjectivity theories and established analytic approaches, especially Kleinian/ Winnicott/object relations models. Topics of discussion include how a focus on affects and internal representations of dyadic interactions can be applied directly in clinical work and what it means to think “intersubjectively,” including how direct observation of infants and parents can help us clarify this term and understand its clinical implications.
EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH FELLOWSHIP (NAPA)
(2010-2011)
The University of Massachusetts Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program (IPMHPCP) is a 15-month intensive interdisciplinary program designed for professionals working with children 0-5 and their families. The IPMHPCP is committed to inter-disciplinary training with a philosophical belief that young children and their families are best served in the context of existing professional relationships where referral and consultation are used to address specific issues while maintaining a comprehensive and collaborative approach to care. The training is based on a practice model encompassing promotion, prevention, early intervention, pan-disciplinary services, and discipline-specific services. Admission is open to licensed or credentialed providers at the graduate through post-doctoral level.
CHILD TRAUMA TRAINING INSTITUTE
(2008-2009)
The Child Trauma Training Institute provides a year long, state-of-the-art, evidence-based training for early childhood mental health professionals. Participants have the opportunity to develop or expand skills in relationship-based treatment of traumatized children ages birth through 5 years and their families, with an emphasis on the impact of trauma in early childhood.
http://www.parentsplaceonline.org/san-francisco/cti