About
Professional training
After completing a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard, 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 attended trainings on postpartum adjustment, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Provider (SEP) and an assistant in Somatic Experiencing trainings. I am committed to ongoing training and research in the areas of couples treatment, attachment theory, somatic psychology, and prenatal and perinatal psychology.
Professional affiliations
I have been a frequent presenter and member of Austin's Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, a grass-roots advocacy, education and support organization that includes all adoption triad members. I maintain membership in the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), The Texas Society for Clinical Social Work, The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), The Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, The EMDR International Association and Postpartum Support International.