About Me

Overview

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Jungian Analyst and an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. I offer Jungian analysis and depth oriented psychotherapy to individual adults, couples, children, and families.  My work is rooted in psychodynamic psychotherapy and Jungian psychology, which I have been studying for fifty years. 

In addition to my clinical practice I teach in the analytic training program at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and I offer clinical consultation in my private practice for licensed therapists and professionals.                  

I am also an internationally recognized speaker, lecturer, poet, and book author. (Please see my Presentations and Workshops, and Book Publication Pages).

Education and Clinical Training         

I began my quest as a Jungian therapist and teacher at UC Santa Cruz during my undergraduate work at University of California, Santa Cruz where I wrote my individual major in "Depth Psychology and Religion." I taught Jung's theories on dream interpretation and led dream groups under the tutelage of William Everson in the literature department. I earned my BA in 1982 and completed my senior thesis on Meister Eckhart. 

I further deepened my clinical training and experience by receiving my Master's degree in clinical psychology at John F. Kennedy University and my Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology. My master's thesis was on "Vocational Dreams and the Nuclear Self" and my dissertation was on " Vocational Development in Childhood."

I did my clinical training at Lincoln Child Center in Oakland, CA and was licensed as a Marriage and Family therapist in 1988. I continued my work at Lincoln which provided me with a solid foundation in working with children, adolescents and families suffering from significant levels of trauma and distress. At the same time, I began my private practice working with individual adults, couples, and families in crisis. 

I entered analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and completed my certification in 2018. This was a continuation of my destiny dream to become an analyst given my 40 years of research into the nature of one's calling. 

My Approach to Jungian Analysis and Depth Psychotherapy

My approach is grounded in Jungian psychology, in addition to family systems, transpersonal psychology, psychology of religious experience, sandplay therapy, active imagination, journaling, spirituality and dreamwork.

Credentials, Education & Professional Affiliations

Licensure and Certification: 

• Certified Jungian Analyst, 2018
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 1988

Educational Degrees:

• PhD in Clinical Psychology, 1994
• MA in Clinical Psychology, 1987
• BA in Depth Psychology and Religion, 1982

Professional Memberships

• Analyst Member, C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
• Member, International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)
• Member, California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)