Treatment based on expert training and personal experience
Training has provided me with skills to work successfully with people with chronic depression and overwhelming emotional pain. My own battle with cancer gives me a valuable perspective.
My formal training includes:
• A Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Post-MSW coursework at the Washington (DC) School for Psychotherapy.
• Intensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) completed in 2000
• Training in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) completed in 2006.
Today, my practice is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment that teaches you how to change your definition of your sadness or anger or fear.
Another way to describe this work is that you may see a glass with water and think the glass is half empty. Someone else may think the glass is half full.
Our work is to look at the glass and see it as a glass that simply has water in it. I have been using CBT for over eight years to work with people who are feeling overwhelmed by their painful emotions.
In addition to working with individuals, I teach at the University of Southern California, am part of a research group at UCLA and offer workshops for clinicians in the tools described above.
