"All that is,
has been,
and will be
is contained in the present moment."
-Charles Johnson
has been,
and will be
is contained in the present moment."
-Charles Johnson
education & experience
I earned a Masters degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University, the only accredited psychotherapy program in the country rooted in Buddhist psychology.
Currently I am a candidate in psychoanalytic training at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and my current work with clients is based in British Object Relations Theory, as elucidated by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion, among others. This approach focuses on what is happening between the therapist and client in the moment, and how this reflects the client's inner processes, as well as their relationship patterns with others.
My professional experience ranges across multiple settings, including in-patient and partial hospitalization programs, hospice care, and both group and individual psychotherapy. I have also been practicing vipassana meditation and studying Buddhism since 2005, including long-term retreat practice, and I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher intensive with Richard Freeman at the Yoga Workshop. My meditation and yoga practices have a profound influence on the way I approach psychotherapy. My understanding is that what creates change is attention to what is happening in our minds and bodies in the present moment, and how we relate to that experience.
Prior to my work in the mental health field, I completed a 1000-hour training in massage therapy in 2005 at Seattle’s Brian Utting School of Massage, with subsequent training in craniosacral therapy. The clients I have treated as a licensed massage therapist were my earliest experiences in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, and chronic stress. As I see and experience them, body and mind are not independent of one another, and to treat one, we must also consider the other. My history as a bodyworker and yoga practitioner adds a somatic lens to my work as a psychotherapist.
Currently I am a candidate in psychoanalytic training at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and my current work with clients is based in British Object Relations Theory, as elucidated by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion, among others. This approach focuses on what is happening between the therapist and client in the moment, and how this reflects the client's inner processes, as well as their relationship patterns with others.
My professional experience ranges across multiple settings, including in-patient and partial hospitalization programs, hospice care, and both group and individual psychotherapy. I have also been practicing vipassana meditation and studying Buddhism since 2005, including long-term retreat practice, and I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher intensive with Richard Freeman at the Yoga Workshop. My meditation and yoga practices have a profound influence on the way I approach psychotherapy. My understanding is that what creates change is attention to what is happening in our minds and bodies in the present moment, and how we relate to that experience.
Prior to my work in the mental health field, I completed a 1000-hour training in massage therapy in 2005 at Seattle’s Brian Utting School of Massage, with subsequent training in craniosacral therapy. The clients I have treated as a licensed massage therapist were my earliest experiences in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, and chronic stress. As I see and experience them, body and mind are not independent of one another, and to treat one, we must also consider the other. My history as a bodyworker and yoga practitioner adds a somatic lens to my work as a psychotherapist.