About Me
Compassionate and Confidential Therapy
Therapy can be an intimate and unique journey. My goal is to provide a space where my clients can speak about their experiences and their lives with openness and without fear of judgment.
I care deeply about the importance of this work and I practice with a respect for you as an individual with your own unique identity, needs, and experiences.
I practice as a trauma-informed, liberation-oriented psychotherapist. I am focused on inclusion and a whole person approach. I have additional training and expertise in issues related to identity, body image healing, body liberation, as well as divestment from diet culture, and other oppressive systems.
In addition to being a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I am also a Certified Body Trust Provider®.
More info on Body Trust®
About Body Trust®
Body Trust® is a strength-based, trauma-informed, scientifically grounded healing modality that encourages movement toward a compassionate, weight-inclusive model of radical self-care to address body oppression, heal body shame and associated patterns of chronic dieting and disordered eating.
Based on the clinical work of Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD, the approach is designed for multi-disciplinary helping professionals to make a shift from a weight-normative to a weight-inclusive approach to care that includes recognition of what helps address intersectional oppressions that have made "body trust" challenging, unsafe or inaccessible.
Body Trust® is both a radical paradigm shift for helping professionals and a specialized, practical intervention for healing body shame and disordered eating that addresses internalized weight stigma and moves towards resilience and liberation from individual, cultural and systemic body oppression.
Certified Body Trust Providers are multi-disciplinary professionals who have completed a rigorous and intensive training. They are dedicated to speaking on behalf of justice and inclusion. To become certified, Body Trust® Providers agree to not promote dieting, specific food philosophies, or promise weight loss.
Education
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Certificate (1-Year) in Body TrustCertified Body Trust Provider — Center for Body Trust
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Certificate (1-Year) in Psychoanalytic PsychotherapyNewport Psychoanalytic Institute
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Master of Arts in PsychologyMarriage & Family Therapy emphasis, with Honors — Chapman University
I participate in ongoing trainings and conferences in order to continue to deepen my own skills and knowledge.
License
State of California
Board of Behavioral Sciences