BACKGROUND

I received a Master of Social Work at Smith College School for Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado. While attending Smith College School for Social Work, I interned at Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy and Research (BIPR) as well as Mental Health Partners and co-facilitated the Brave Kids Group, an anxiety group for 7-11 year olds, with Jane Bida, LCSW.

 

Post-masters, I completed a year-long fellowship at the University of Colorado, Wardenburg Health Center, Psychological Health and Psychiatry. Within the framework of my private practice following graduation, I worked with BIPR and AIM House as a contract individual and family therapist. Currently,  I am in private practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC), Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA) Certified Therapist. As well,  I am on the board of the Four Corners Group Psychotherapy Society (FCGPS). I am also an adjunct Small Group instructor at Naropa University's Contemplative Psychotherapy and
Buddhist Psychology  Master's Program.  

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My individual and group education, training, and clinical practice are grounded in the psychodynamic tradition with an emphasis on modern psychoanalysis, contemplative psychology, trauma, attachment and neurobiology. 

TRAININGS

  • Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC)​​​

    • Clinical Supervision II; 2018

    • Clinical Supervision I; 2018

    • Advanced Motivational Interviewing; 2018

    • Motivational Interviewing; 2018

    • Infectious Diseases in Addiction Treatment; 2018

    • Professional Ethics II; 2017

    • Group Counseling Skills; 2017

    • Principles of Addiction; 2017

    • Pharmacology I​; 2017

    • Pharmacology II; 2017​

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  • Center for Group Studies, New York:  

    • ​Weekend Training Program​​

      • Block 5: Technical & Special Issues in Group; 2019

      • Block 4: Transference & Countertransference Issues in Group; 2019

      • Block 3: Introduction to Group Resistances; 2019

      • Block 2: Forming a Group; 2018

      • Block 1: The Essence of Modern Group Process; 2018

      • Block 9: Resolving Transference Resistance & Termination Issues; 2018

      • Block 8: Working with Unconscious Material: Dreams, Symbolic & Non-verbal Communication; 2017

      • Block 7: Specialized Topics in Countertransference; 2017

      • Blocks 6: Working with Pre-oedipal Patients in Group; 2017

    • Reading Program​​

      • Block 1: The Essence of Modern Group Process; 2019​

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  • Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York: Distance Learning Program​

    • Human Development: How the mind unfolds; 2019
    • Aggression & Narcissism; 2019
    • Countertransference; 2018
    • ​Analytic Listening; 2018

    • Transference & Resistance ; 2017

    • Maturation; 2017​ 

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  • ​American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)​

    • 2017 Annual Meeting

    • 2016 Annual Meeting

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  • Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society, (COGPS): 2016 Annual Meeting

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  • Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS); 2016

 

  • ​Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Level 1 and 2; 

 

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

 

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

 

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

 

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

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  • The Dissociative Mind and the Discovery of the Self with Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D.; 2015

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  • The Freud and Ferenczi Letters, a staged reading of selected letters; Sponsored by The Graduate School of Professional Psychology and the Denver Psychoanalytic Society; 2014

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  • 10 Things to Explore on the Road to Discovering Dissociative Processes in Your Casework with Richard Chefetz, M.D.; 2014

 

  • Psychotherapy with Dissociative Patients with Richard Chefetz, M.D. & Kathryn Chefetz, L.C.S.W.; 2013

 

  • Toward an Embodied Self: Attachment, Dissociation and EMDR with Ulrich, Lanius, Ph.D.; 2013

 

  • Normal and Pathological Dissociative Attachment Processes in Human Development: Applications for Therapeutic Relationships with Mary Sue Moore, Ph.D.2012

 

  • Encountering the Implicit Self in Psychotherapy: Intersubjective and Neuropsychological Underpinnings to Knowing the Other with Efrat Ginot, Ph.D.; 2012

LECTURES
Study & Consultation GROUPS

  • Group Consultation, Bob Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., CACIII, CGP; since 2015    

  • EMDR Consultation with Rosemary Wrzos, M.Ed., L.P.C; since 2010

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  • Externalizing the wish for the secure base in the modern analytic group with Aaron Black ph.D.; 2017​​​

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  • Allan Watts-On Being God: a Study Group with Bob Unger, Ph.D.; 2017

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  • Neurogenetic Study Group with Thomas Arizmendi, Ph.D.; 2017

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  • Recognizing and Working with the Suicidal Experience in Clinical Process Study Group with Joan Heron, LCSW, Psychoanalyst; 2016

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  • Integrating Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Trauma into Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Seminar with Mary Sue Moore, Ph.D.; 2015/2016