My Background
For more than 20 years, I’ve worked with individuals, couples, and groups across community agencies and private practice to help people gain clarity, healing, and self-understanding. My early volunteer work began in 1988 with the Big Brothers Association, Prevent Blindness Ohio, the Columbus AIDS Task Force, and the Columbus Diabetes Association, where I learned the value of empathy, presence, and service.
After moving to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, I facilitated support groups through the Shanti Foundation, offering emotional support for men living with HIV. For over eight years, I led workshops for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the California Men’s Gathering in Malibu, deepening my understanding of identity, connection, and healing through shared experience.
My early counseling work led me to Imago Relationship Therapy, developed by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Beginning in 2001, I assisted Getting the Love You Want workshops in Long Beach, California, which inspired me to pursue a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, completed in 2006. I later earned a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS) in 2008.
My training also includes advanced study in Gestalt Therapy at the Pacific Gestalt Institute, Holotropic Breathwork with Stan Grof, and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. I am a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and have continued to expand my trauma-focused work through the EMDR Institute, founded by Dr. Francine Shapiro.
From 2014 to 2016, I served as a clinical associate at the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, where I completed the Sex Addiction Treatment and Sex Therapy Training Programs under Dr. Alexandra Katehakis.
In addition to these modalities, I continue to deepen my practice through mindfulness-based psychotherapy training, integrating compassion, awareness, and present-moment experience into my clinical work.
My private practice is located in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, where I work with individuals, couples, adolescents, and groups. I am a member of Imago Relationships International, the Southern California Imago Therapists Association, EMDRIA, and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).
