Education

Doctorate in Psychoanalysis (Psy.D)
Certified Analyst
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)

Master’s of Social Work (MSW)
San Francisco State University
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Board of Behavioral Sciences/State of California

Memberships

• Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
• International Psychoanalytic Association
• International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis
• National Association for Social Work
• California Society for Clinical Social Work
• Division 39, American Psychological Association

Scholarly Work

• International Psychoanalytic Association
  Mexico City, 2011:
  “The Disappearing Analyst: The experience of a paradoxical, no-object in the transference”.
  Boston, 2016:
  “When the Mind Does Not Arrive: The negative of trauma and the encounter with a nonsymbolic object.”*

• International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis
  San Francisco, 2009:
  “Left Too Long” (experiences of early trauma)
  Toronto, 2015:
  “Thinking About Trauma: The analyst’s encounter with the unthinkable in psychoanalytic theory and in the clinical setting.”**

*Presented at Div. 39, American Psychological Association, Denver, 2016
**Presented at the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Seattle, 2007