After getting my license in 1999, I opened my private practice. My focus was on helping individuals and couples improve their relationships, reduce depression and anxiety, and heal from psychological trauma.

At the same time, I started working at Bridge to Wellness, an outpatient psychiatric program of the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Psychiatry.  My primary focus there was on running groups for patients transitioning out of in-patient psychiatric units and back into their lives.  While this was rewarding work, I came to realize that running groups was not where I wanted to put my focus.

After 2 years there, I transitioned to working on staff at New Leaf Services for our Community, also in San Francisco.  There I provided individual and couples therapy as well as case management for low-income and underserved populations with severe mental health diagnoses.

All during this time, I was building my private practice and taking many trainings in psychotherapy, including my hypnosis trainings,  to deepen my knowledge and refine my skills. Then, 2006 I left New Leaf and transitioned to full-time private practice.  More and more I began to include hypnosis into my work until it became one of the main specialties that I offer.

MA in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies 1994

BA  from Colby College in Waterville Maine 1982