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I am experienced working with people who are coping with trauma, stress, anxiety, grief, relationship problems, chronic illness, chronic pain, and other life challenges.

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I am also a certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor, and a certified AEDP therapist and Supervisor Candidate, and I teach courses for therapists through the Academy for Therapist Evolution. My background also includes hospice work and both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric social work. I have served on the adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley's MSW program, as a supervisor for the Psychotherapy Institute, and as a faculty member of the Psychotherapy Institute's Supervision Studies Program.

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THERAPY AS LIBERATORY PRACTICE: I believe it is vital to to be conscious of and be accountable for the paradigms that shape our thinking and our behavior, and as such I am committed to examining how the field of psychotherapy contains both the potential for oppressive practices and the potential for liberatory practices.

Therapy's liberatory potential includes its ability to:

• raise consciousness and awareness;

• allow us to see our paradigms;

• support us in seeing and experiencing the ways those paradigms shape our minds, hearts, bodies, actions, and relationships;

• allow us to examine those effects so we can decide whether the paradigms truly serve us;

• give us a set of skills and tools to increase our autonomy and choice;

• accompany us in feeling our way into new, embodied ways of being; and

• grow and nourish our ability to live meaningful lives that are more firmly grounded in our values.

VALUE STATEMENT ON IDENTITY, POWER, AND PRIVILEGE: I am a social worker as well as a therapist, and I am commited to anti-oppressive practice. In my work, I attend to ways in which identity (mine as well as yours) impact our day-to-day experiences, in relationships, in society, and in therapy. This includes factors such as race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, and the intersection of these various ways of experiencing and being experienced by the world. I am committed to my own process of growth and discovery of self and self-in-relationship, which includes a heartfelt commitment to understanding and feeling into issues of power and privilege as they show up in any relationship. As a white, cisgender, queer man, I do my own work to understand how these identities shape what I do, what and how I know, and what I can see.

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Education:

• Certified Therapist and Supervisor in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT, EFIT, and EFFT).

• Certified Therapist and Supervisor Candidate in AEDP.

• Certified Deliberate Practice Supervisor, IDPS

• Deliberate Practice Supervisor Residency, Sentio University

• Center for Mind Body Medicine Professional Training Program, 2009, and Advanced Professional Training Program, 2010.

• Smith College School for Social Work, Masters in Social Work, 2003.

• Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, Clinical Fellowship, 2001.

• New York University, Masters in Education, 1997.

• New York University, BFA, 1993.