Credentials

Education, Licensure & Training

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Education

  • Smith College School for Clinical Social Work, M.S.W.
  • Sarah Lawrence College, Double Major: Cultural Studies and Visual Art, B.A.
  • Stanford University, Psychotherapy Graduate Fellowship

Licensure

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, California: LCSW #26430
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New York: LCSW #096124

Teaching

California Institute of Integral Studies, Integral Counseling Psychology Master’s Program — Course: Sexuality: Psyche, Soma, Spirit

  • Relational and Somatic Psychotherapy, Private Practice (2010–Present)
  • Relational Psychotherapy, Internship with Elana Moser, LCSW
  • Somatic Psychotherapy, Internship with Mai Le, MFT
  • Walden House, Project Sister Kin, Adolescent Mental Health Care Treatment Program
  • Stanford University, Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Mental Health Care
  • UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Center for Child Protection, Child Mental Health Care
  • Swords to Plowshares, Transitional Housing Program, Veterans Mental Health Care Treatment Program
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Advanced
  • Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), Intermediate
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
  • Pacifica Graduate Institute, Ecopsychology Advanced Certificate
  • The Earthbody Institute, Ecotherapy Certificate
  • Climate Psychology North America
  • Smith College School for Social Work, Anti-Racism Curriculum
  • The UNtraining: Unlearning White Liberal Racism
Body & Pleasure
  • Shiatsu Institute of San Francisco, B.J. Green, Director & Shiatsu Instructor
    A full year of study
  • The Body Electric School, Chester Mainard, primary massage instructor
    Certified Massage Therapist
  • Buddhist Tantra, Johanina Wikoff, PhD
    A full year of study
  • Female Orgasm
    Nine months of formal study
  • School of Consent, developed by Dr. Betty Martin
    Like a Pro: The Wheel of Consent for Professionals, taught by Carmen Leilani, Marcia Baczynski, and Katie Spataro
Harm & Justice
Lived experience; ten years studying the published work of leading experts in these fields
  • Child Protection
  • Domestic Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Justice
  • Sexual Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Justice
  • Coercive Control of Women and Children: Identification, Recovery, and Justice
  • Child Abuse and Neglect: Prevention, Recovery, and Justice
  • Child Sexual Abuse and Incest: Prevention, Recovery, and Justice
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Conventional Justice
  • Restorative Justice
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Institute (AEDP)
  • American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)
  • National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

Credentials matter—and connection matters more.