We know ourselves only as far as we’ve been tested.
I tell you this from my unknown heart.
Wisława Szymborska
I am a
Therapist
For over thirty years I’ve counseled individuals, couples, and families with big, complicated challenges. I have steady nerves, clear vision, unrelenting optimism that people can grow through their worst crises, and heart.
I am a
Teacher
My passion for helping, counseling, and social work is so great, I teach others about it. After teaching graduate students for seventeen years, I now offer continuing education to professionals in non-profit, mental health, and other healthcare settings, training on trauma-informed care, supervision practices, and the ethics of helping.
Strong @ the
Broken Places
Ernest Hemingway said, “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” I have a career-long passion for helping people in the helping professions explore the impact of workplace overwhelm, the cumulative, transformative impact of working with people facing extreme adversities, and ways to expand professional insight and resilience.
Upcoming
Continuing Education
Expanding ‘The Shrink Next Door’: An Ethical Case Study
December 4-5, 2025
9:00 am – 11:00 am
WEBINAR
“The Shrink Next Door” is a podcast and television series based on the true story of psychiatrist Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf’s thirty-year-long relationship with one of his clients. In 2021, New York’s Department of Health determined that the doctor violated “minimal acceptable standards of care in the psychotherapeutic relationship” and revoked his license to practice. While an egregious example of exploitation, this true story also provides an opportunity to explore the complex intersection of the therapeutic alliance, transference and countertransference, treatment interventions, and clinical ethics (in particular conflicts of interest, dual relationships, fraud, and incompetence).
How do clinical treatment and therapists’ personal and professional decisions intersect? How do a therapist’s own unfinished business interfere with treatment decisions and the maintenance of clinical boundaries? How was the blurring of boundaries rationalized clinically and would they ever be acceptable in any other circumstances?
6 CEUs
Mindful Supervision: Trauma-informed Practices in an Age of Overwhelm
October 9-10, 2025
8:30 am – noon
WEBINAR
Most practitioners seeking supervision or consultation have significant exposure to the trauma stories of their clients, magnified during this long season of worsening mental health and spiraling addiction. Integrating routine mindful habits into the supervisory relationship allows supervisees to stay in the “Window of Tolerance” for longer periods, increase vagal tone and perseverance, and find meaning, satisfaction, and even joy in their work. Mindful supervision enhances creativity and critical thinking, unblocks learning, increases intentional use of the supervisory relationship, and enhances whole body wisdom essential to effective care, healing, and professional resilience.
The webinar also introduces a structured model for clinical case consultation that integrates the mindful practices participants will discuss in class.
6 CEUs