Credentials

Experience

I am a licensed mental health counselor in Washington and earned my master’s degree in counseling from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in 2004. For my internship, I worked with Dr. Dan Allender at Recovery Weeks where we focused on the issue of sexual abuse. At the annual Story Workshop, I taught participants how to write their stories with more honesty and compassion. I wrote To Be Told Workbook, about the importance of telling the stories that have shaped you.

Clinical Training

2026

  • Expressive pArts Work, Part 1: Introduction to Supporting Complex Trauma Healing with SoulPages Art Journaling and Internal Family Systems with Theresa Soltzberg (6 hours)

2025

  • Therapy Is Not Neutral with Dr. Jennifer Mullan (1 hour)

2024

  • Youth and Adult Suicide: Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment of Suicidality with Randi Jensen (6 hours)
  • Treating Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems Therapy with Frank Anderson, M.D. (1 hour) 
  • Introduction to Military Culture, Families, and Deployment with Allison Hannah, Jennifer Phillips, and Debra Nofziger (6 hours)
  • Cultural Competency and Neurodivergent Culture: Understand and Identify Autistic and ADHD Traits in Adults with Laura Tewel (1 hour)

2023

  • Healing Your Inner Family: SoulPages Journaling and Family Constellations with Rakefet Hadar (6 hours)
  • Internal Family Systems Therapy and Disordered Eating: Heal the Relationship Between Food and Body with Frank Anderson, M.D., and Jeanne Catanzaro, Ph.D. (1 hour) 
  • IFS Therapy and Addictive Processes: Healing Wounds and Restoring Balance to the System of Parts with Frank Anderson, M.D., and Cece Sykes (1 hour)
  • IFS with Children and Adolescents: Using Parts Work to Help Young People Heal with Frank Anderson, M.D., and Pamela Krause (1 hour)
  • IFS Approaches to Shame, Anxiety, and Depression with Frank Anderson, M.D., and Michael Elkin (1 hour)
  • IFS and Couples Therapy: Using Intimacy From the Inside Out to Heal, Improve, and Provide Relationship Help with Frank Anderson, M.D., and Toni Herbine-Blank (1 hour)
  • IFS Approaches with LGBTQ2IA+ Clients with Frank Anderson, M.D., and James Andralis (1 hour)
  • Attachment and IFS: Healing Trauma and Attachment Wounds that Befriend the Body with Frank Anderson, M.D., and Chris H. Burris (1 hour) 
  • Internal Family Systems: Development, Application, and Transformational Model to Effectively Help Clients Improve Well-Being with Frank Anderson, M.D., Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., and Paul Ginter, Ed.D. (3 hours) 
  • Internal Family Systems Therapy with Frank Anderson, M.D. (6 hours)
  • Introduction to Nature Therapy with Becky Robbins (6 hours)

2022

  • Chicanx Affirmative Therapy Training, level 2 with Manuel X. Zamarripa, Ph.D. (10 hours)
  • Love and the Therapeutic Alliance: Deepening Our Work with Clients and Ourselves with Sabrina N’Diaye, Ph.D. (4 hours) 
  • Transcending Trauma with Internal Family Systems: Mending the Wounds We Carry with Frank Anderson, M.D. (4 hours) 
  • Finding a Faster Way to Treat Trauma: A Neurobiologically Informed Approach with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. (2 hours) 
  • Rethinking Borderline Personality Disorder: A Traumatic Attachment Disorder with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. (3 hours)
  • The Modern Abolitionist with Resmaa Menakem (1 hour) 
  • Why Aren’t We Talking About Narcissism? with Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D. (1 hour)
  • The Great Adaptation with Esther Perel (1 hour)
  • A Wounded Healer Heals: Dr. Yalom on Life, Loss, and Therapy with Irvin Yalom (1 hour) 

2021

  • Chicanx Affirmative Therapy Training, level 1: Clinical Responsiveness and Chicanx Mental Health with Manuel X. Zamarripa, Ph.D. (9 hours)
  • Reparative Communal Consultation for White Bodies with Resmaa Menakem, Ph.D., and Carlyn Quinn (once a month for three years) 
  • The Impact Movement: Cultural Competency with Al Vivian (28 hours)
  • Seeing the Racial Water with Robin DiAngelo (4 hours)
  • Borderline Personality Disorder: Powerful and Effective Strategies to Calm the Chaos with Gregory W. Lester, Ph.D. (6 hours) 
  • White Supremacist Violence: Clinically Understanding the Resurgence and Stopping the Spread with Dr. Brian Van Brunt (1 hour) 

2020

  • Lifting Black Voices: Therapy, Trust, and Racial Trauma with La Shanda Sugg, Dr. Tiffany Crayton, and L.J. Lumpkin (1 hour)
  • Hey, White Therapist, Here’s Where We Start with Frank Baird (1 hour)
  • Race Matters: Understanding Race Through Experience with Sam Louie (6 hours)
  • Tending to Racial Trauma During Crisis with Melody Li and Sam Lee (4 hours)
  • Human-Animal Intervention with Exotics (1.5 hours)
  • Professional Ethics and Social Justice with Lisa Erickson (6 hours)

2019

  • Psychodrama Training with Mary Bellofatto, T.E.P., (48 hours)  
  • Motivational Interviewing with Kriss Haran (6 hours)

2018

  • Psychodrama Training with Mary Bellofatto, T.E.P., (12 hours)
  • REST Training Day, addressing the issues of commercial sexual exploitation with Audrey Baedke, (8 hours)
  • Human Trafficking: Clinical Identification and Treatment Approaches for Survivors of Modern Day Slavery and Sexual Exploitation with Shari Kim, Ph.D., (6 hours)

2017

  • Experiential Training Institute at Onsite with Karin Gomar de Schwank, (30 hours) 
  • Trauma Stage Processing at Onsite with Bill Lokey and Laurie Lokey, (23 hours)

2016

  • Sexual Attitude Reassessment with Tina Schermer Sellers, Ph.D., (21 hours) June
  • Working with Suicidal Clients, (6 hours)
  • Trauma, Attachment, and Neuroscience with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., (6 hours)
  • An Evening with the Extraordinary Gina Ogden on sexuality, (3 hours)
  • Living Centered Program at Onsite, (7-day intensive)
  • The Embodied Practitioner, (3 hours)

2015

  • Extreme Skeptics about DID: Why They Are Wrong with Colin Ross, M.D., (1 hour)
  • Understanding Organized Abuse with Alison Miller, Ph.D., (6 hours)
  • Treating Extra-Relational Affairs Workshop with David Schnarch, Ph.D. and Ruth Morehouse, Ph.D., (20 hours)

2013

  • EMDR Basic Training with Barbara Parrett, (40 hours) 

2012

  • Conference on Behavioral Health and Addictive Disorders, (18 hours)
  • Reel Therapy 2: More Ethical and Professional Issues for Therapists with Michael Kahn, J.D., (1.5 hours)
  • World’s Most Dangerous Drug and Beauty Mark, (2 hours)

2010

  • Crucible Intimacy and Desire Clinical Workshop with David Schnarch, Ph.D. and Ruth Morehouse, Ph.D. (13 hours)
  • New Perspectives on Desire with David Schnarch, Ph.D., (6 hours)
Education

M.A. in Counseling
The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology

M.A. in English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

B.A. in English
The College of William and Mary in Virginia