Education & Training

I'm currently working toward certification in Focusing-Oriented Therapy through The International Focusing Institute, and recently completed a year-long training in embodied experiential dreamwork, which shapes how I work with dreams when clients bring them.

Outside of formal clinical training, I've studied yoga, sound, and other contemplative practices.

LICENSURE & JURISDICTION

  • Licensed Psychologist-Master’s Level in Vermont (#047.0133707)

  • My Vermont license is regulated by the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation (OPR).

  • I am also licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in the state of Hawaii.

  • At this time, all psychotherapy services are provided exclusively to clients who are physically located in Vermont at the time of each session, and are governed by the laws and regulations of the State of Vermont.

EDUCATION

  • Master’s in Clinical Psychology - Saint Michael’s College (degree awarded August 2018)

  • Graduate internship, Middlebury College

  • Graduate practicum, NFI VT - Hospital Diversion Program

  • Bachelor of Arts in English & Political Science, Syracuse University

Professional Experience (selected)

  • Disability Services Counselor, University of Hawaii —direct work with adults navigating attention, executive functioning, learning differences, and related mental health concerns

  • Counselor, Counseling Services of Addison County —community mental health work with adults, youth, and families

CORE Clinical TRAININGS (SELECTED)

  • The Embodied & Relational Edge of Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Serge Prengel, LMHC, FOT—senior Focusing-Oriented Therapy trainer

  • Embodied Experiential Dreamwork, Leslie Ellis, PhD, RCC —a leading voice in somatic and experiential dreamwork

  • Beginning Dream Patterning, Assisi Institute, Michael Conforti, PhD—Jungian and archetypal dream studies

  • Beginning Art of Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis, Assisi Institute, Michael Conforti, PhD & Muriel McMahon, M.Ed. —Jungian and archetypal pattern analysis in folk and fairy tale

  • Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Therapy, Existential-Humanistic Institute—founded by James Bugental, Kirk Schneider, and others in the existential-humanistic tradition

Attention & Executive Functioning

  • Advanced ADHD Coaching – Adults, Mentor Coach

Clinical Safety Training

  • 16 hour -Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), workshop in suicide first aid

ADVANCED TRAINING (IN PROGRESS)

  • Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) Certification Program, Leslie Ellis, PhD, RCC — in progress

INTEGRATIVE STUDIES (Selected)

  • 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training, Laughing River Yoga

  • Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery, Yoga Teacher Training Level 1, Veterans Yoga Project

  • 130 hour Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner Training, New York Open Center

  • Applications of Therapeutic Sound (3 modules/36 hrs), Center Of Light, Zacciah Blackburn

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Trainee Member, The International Focusing Institute (TIFI); pursuing certification in Focusing-Oriented Therapy

  • Associate Member, American Psychological Association, Division 32 - Society For Humanistic Psychology