About
Professional training
After completing a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School, where my interests were religious traditions of the world and cross-cultural service, I received a Master of Social Work degree from Smith College School for Social Work and completed advanced clinical training in couples and family systems therapy at the Kantor Family Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Cambridge I also completed specialized training in pre- and post-adoption issues, while serving families touched by adoption and foster-care. I have advanced training in postpartum adjustment, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience (DARe), Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP), and Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Provider (SEP) and have assisted Somatic Experiencing trainings in the United States and Canada for more than 10 years, currently serving as the Lead Assistant for the Boston Somatic Experiencing training.
Wholehearted about investing in and strengthening my skills as a therapist, I am committed to ongoing training and research in the areas of couples treatment, attachment theory and treatment methods for healing attachment trauma, somatic psychology, and prenatal and perinatal psychology.
It is my experience that the skillful, embodied and authentic presence I bring to each therapy session creates the context that most facilitates healing; I value this as much as my formal training.
Professional affiliations
I maintain membership in the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), The Private Practice Colloquium of the North Shore, Mass., The EMDR International Association, The AEDP Institute, The New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, and Postpartum Support International.