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
An “Hour of the Heart” in an Era of Chaos: Clinical Strategies
February 12, 19, & 26 noon
noon – 1:30 pm each day
WEBINAR
In this three-session reading group–Thursdays, February 12, 19 and 26th–we will read, reflect, and discuss Hour of the Heart, distilling lessons we can apply to our clinical work. We will use these discussions as a springboard for grappling with our own evolving professional identities. How do we use self-disclosure strategically? What is authenticity? How do we tap the power of the here-and-now? Can clients ask us personal questions?
Participants meet on Thursdays in February (2/12, 2/19, 2/26, noon to 1:30 pm all days). We will read chapters 1 – 7 before February 12; chapters 8 – 15 before February 19; and chapters 16-22 before February 26. Participants receive some CEU credit for reading.
6 CEUs
Mindful Supervision: Trauma-informed Practices in an Age of Overwhelm
April 10, 2026
8:30 am – 4pm
WORKSHOP
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 workshop also introduces a structured model for clinical case consultation that integrates the mindful practices participants will discuss in class.
6 CEUs