Training & influences
Learning to listen.
Continuing to think.
My clinical thinking continues to develop through study, supervision, and the experience of working with patients. I am grateful to the teachers and supervisors who have helped shape how I listen, and to the writers whose ideas I return to.
Programs & continuing study
An ongoing
analytic education.
My training includes psychoanalytic psychotherapy programs at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS), as well as LAISPS’s Altered States of Body and Mind program.
I am a psychoanalytic candidate at the Psychoanalytic Center of California. My study also includes reflective parenting, FirstPlay, and the Adult Attachment Interview.
My continuing education also includes BODY TALK: Nourishment, Embodiment, Technology, Illness, Aging at WTCI (formerly Women’s Therapy Centre Institute).
My sustained study has included teaching by:
- Joshua Durban, Ph.D.
- Karen Beard, Ph.D.
- Peggy Matson, Psy.D.
- Jennifer Kuntz, Ph.D.
Ongoing clinical supervision, sustained coursework, seminars, and workshops continue to inform my practice. I am grateful to the teachers, supervisors, and colleagues who offer a place to think deeply about the work.
Workshops & continuing education
Encounters that
extend the thinking.
My continuing education has included workshops with:
- Nancy McWilliams
- Daniel José Gaztambide
- Mark Solms
- Arnaldo Chuster
- Dhwani Shah
- Maria Rhode
- John Steiner
Intellectual influences
Writers I
return to.
My thinking about emotional life, the unconscious, relationships, care, and the practice of psychotherapy draws on the work of:
- Donald Winnicott
- Melanie Klein
- Sigmund Freud
- John Bowlby
- Salvador Minuchin
- Peter Fonagy
- Wilfred Bion
- Harold Searles