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.
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW):
Colorado #9923757
Montana #36955
Oklahoma #6733
Licensed Addictions Counselor (LAC):
Colorado #1041
Certifed Group Psycotherapist
Approved Clinical Supervisor
EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist
TRAININGS
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Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York: Distance Learning Program​​
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Modern Psychoanalytic Theory of Technique; 2020
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Human Development: How the mind unfolds; 2019
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Aggression & Narcissism; 2019
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Countertransference; 2018
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​Analytic Listening; 2018
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Transference & Resistance ; 2017
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Maturation; 2017​
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Center for Group Studies, New York:
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Reading Program​​​​​
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Block 2: Forming a Group; 2020
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Block 1: The Essence of Modern Group Process; 2019
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​Weekend Training Program​​
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Block 5: Technical & Special Issues in Group; 2019
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Block 4: Transference & Countertransference Issues in Group; 2019
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Block 3: Introduction to Group Resistances; 2019
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Block 2: Forming a Group; 2018
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Block 1: The Essence of Modern Group Process; 2018
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Block 9: Resolving Transference Resistance & Termination Issues; 2018
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Block 8: Working with Unconscious Material: Dreams, Symbolic & Non-verbal Communication; 2017
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Block 7: Specialized Topics in Countertransference; 2017
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Blocks 6: Working with Pre-oedipal Patients in Group; 2017
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​American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)​
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2017 Annual Meeting
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2016 Annual Meeting
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Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society, (COGPS): 2016 Annual Meeting​​​​​
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​Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Level 1 and 2;
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
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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
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Psychotherapy with Dissociative Patients with Richard Chefetz, M.D. & Kathryn Chefetz, L.C.S.W.; 2013
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Toward an Embodied Self: Attachment, Dissociation and EMDR with Ulrich, Lanius, Ph.D.; 2013
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Normal and Pathological Dissociative Attachment Processes in Human Development: Applications for Therapeutic Relationships with Mary Sue Moore, Ph.D.2012
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Encountering the Implicit Self in Psychotherapy: Intersubjective and Neuropsychological Underpinnings to Knowing the Other with Efrat Ginot, Ph.D.; 2012
LECTURES
Study & Consultation GROUPS
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Group Consultation, Bob Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., CACIII, CGP; since 2015
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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