About

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and have been in private practice in San Francisco for eleven years. I provide psychotherapy, coaching and support to individuals, couples and groups. My counseling style is empathic, warm and collaborative. My treatment modalities include psychodynamic, solution focused (Cognitive Behavioral), and Transpersonal. I specialize in fertility counseling and helping you to understand and cope with the many complexities and stressors inherent to your journey. I help you to navigate the overwhelming emotional and medical aspects of the process. Guiding you to reframe this life altering experience as an opportunity to expand your self-awareness is central to my work. Additionally, I specialize in issues related to third party reproduction and parenting with donor egg, post infertility pregnancy, post partum depression, new parenting hurdles and the challenges specific to parenting twins. I have been practicing yoga and meditation for eighteen years. I strive to integrate the healing aspects of these practices and to cultivate an environment of mutual trust, compassion and loving-kindness.

Advanced Training
Domar Center for Mind-Body Health

Professionally Trained in Mind-Body Program for Infertility with Alice D. Domar, PhD

American Society for Reproductive Medicine - ASRM Post Graduate Coursework

Psychological Interventions for Infertility Patients
Practicing Politics: An Interactive Course on the Ethics & Counseling Issues in Assisted Reproductive Technology

Jack Kornfield, PhD & Dan Siegel, PhD

Healing & Transformation: Buddhist Wisdom & Neuroscientific Insight

EMDR Institute, Inc.

Professionally Trained in EMDR-Level I (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) with Francine Shapiro, PhD

Education
Masters’ of Clinical Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Specialization in Group Therapy
B.S. in Education, University of New Hampshire at Keene State College, Keene, N.H.

Credentials

CA. Board of Behavioral Sciences, LCSW, License # 19714, December, 1999

Symposium – February 2010

The Art of Donor Oocytes and Third Party Reproduction

Affiliations
National Association of Social Workers
San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American Fertility Association
Resolve - The National Fertility Association
San Francisco Parents of Multiples

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