Competence and Curiosity
(and Credentials)
What I bring to our work together.
Education and Training
University of Chicago BA Comparative Human Development
Smith College School for Social Work MSW Clinical Social Work
VA Puget Sound Fellowship in substance use and trauma treatment
Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Fellowship in Psychoanalysis
SAVI® Communications SAVI Certified Trainer
Systems-Centered Training and Research Institute Applied training in SCT
Presentations and Publications
Systems-Centered Training Annual Conference "Systems-Centered Writing: A Creative Writing Group Experience", April 2022 and March 2023
EGPS Annual Conference "Writing from the Self in Group: Enlivening Ourselves and Our Work", November 2021 and November 2022
Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study Annual Forum “Exploring Together: Getting Clearer through Group Experience”, April 2021
Systems-Centered Training Annual Conference "Bridging a Turbulent Divide: Using the tools of SCT to Integrate Political Differences", March 2021
EGPS Brooklyn Discussion Group & Annual Conference "Exploring Mortality: How Therapists (and their groups) Interact with Death", January & November 2020
GROUP Journal "Communicating about Politics in Group: Is There Room for a Difference?" Winter 2019
International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education "Understanding our Silent Subgroups: within ourselves, each other, and our communities", October 2018
EGPS Manhattan Discussion Group "Free to Love: Multicultural Intimacies", June 2018
International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education "The Myth of the Expected Loss: How clinicians interact with their mortality in clinical and professional practice", October 2014
Professional Membership and Activity
Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Treasurer, Board Member, Faculty of the Training Program, Organizing Member, Work Group for Racial Equity
Systems-Centered Training and Research Institute Member
SAVI® Trainers Network Member
American Group Psychotherapy Association Member, Certified Group Psychotherapist
National Association of Social Workers Member
IHI Therapy Center Staff Therapist and Supervisor
Gay Therapy Center Therapist