I became a state Approved Supervisor for LMHCs in October 2005. I am also seeing professionals for supervision and consultation in my private practice. I have decided to add supervision and consultation to my practice offerings because I value what I learn in return by being involved in this process.

My theoretical orientation for clinical supervision and consultation combines feminist, developmental and psychodynamic theories with cognitive-behavioral practicalities. I enjoy watching clinicians gain confidence in their skills, grapple with the never-ending process of clarifying their clinical orientation and understanding of a client, and discover new things about themselves and the field in which we work.

Helping clinicians new to private practice also often entails assisting them in the development of the business aspects of their practice, something we are not taught in school. I have been in private practice since 1996 and can offer you a decade of experience running my own practice.

I have worked in a variety of settings including; residential group care, intensive therapeutic preschool in community mental health, intensive day treatment in community mental health, medical clinics, the Department of Corrections, and private practice. I began working with children, adolescents and their families in 1988 but have limited my practice to adults and couples since 1999. On occasion I will still see older adolescents. My theoretical orientation for psychotherapy combines feminist, attachment and psychodynamic theories with the learning tools/skills of cognitive-behavioral and emotionally focused therapies.

My primary focus in my most recent work has been on adults recovering from the long-term effects of childhood trauma, issues of individuation in relationships, values/goals identification and clarification, weathering life transitions (e.g., becoming parents, separation/divorce, empty nest), and adults in early substance abuse recovery. Clinical diagnoses I commonly work with include major depression, anxiety/panic, PTSD, bereavement, adjustment disorders. While working with DOC I gained extensive experience working with severe mental illness and Axis II disorders; in private practice I do not see severely mentally ill and only see high functioning Axis II individuals. - more -