RESUME

E D U C A T I O N
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2008
M.A. — Counseling & Student Personnel Psychology (CSPP)
 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT / University of MN, Minneapolis, MN
B.A. — Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature.   Summa Cum Laude.
Concentration in Theatre.   Minor in Political Science.   Phi Beta Kappa.

L I C E N S E
L.P.C. — Licensed Professional Counselor.   Lic.: #LPC00735
L.P.C.C. — Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.   Lic.: #cc00275

S U P E R V I S O R   D E S I G N A T I O N
BBHT Board Approved Supervisor for LPC and LPCC applicants and licensees (2013- Present)

R E L A T E D   P R O F E S S I O N A L   P O S I T I O N S
Core Psychotherapy, Minneapolis (2011–Present)
Psychotherapist serving individuals (adults & adolescents).

Integral Psychotherapy, St. Louis Park & Minneapolis (2009–2011)
Psychotherapist serving individuals, couples, families and children.

Hamm Memorial Clinic, Saint Paul, MN (2008–2009)
Received advanced post-graduate training in weekly seminars, case consultation, group and individual supervision. Served primarily low-income adults. Commended for breadth of intellectual curiosity, enthusiasm for the field, ability to think about a case on several levels, and openness to reevaluating direction based on outcomes.

Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JFCS), Minnetonka, MN (2007–2008)
Intake & Information Counselor representing a wide-range of social services, and psychotherapist serving individuals, families and children. Received exceptional supervisor evaluations for ability to build rapport, commitment to producing insightful case conceptualizations, and motivation to learn.  

Fountain House, Inc., Manhattan, NY (1997–1998)  
Answered an overnight counseling and crisis hotline for low-income adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI). Taught life-skills to a diverse population of homeless and others recovering from mental illness to help them to regain their productivity and self-confidence, resume their lives, and re-enter society.

P R O F E S S I O N A L   M E M B E R S H I P S
— Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (SPS): American Psychological Assoc. (APA), Division 39
— Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (MPSI)
— Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (MICP & P)
— The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)

R E L A T E D   A C T I V I T I E S
M A R T I A L   A R T I S T : Former Asst. Instructor at The Tibetan Tiger/Crane Martial Arts Academy. Taught self-defense for women and emphasized integration of mental/physical well-being. Student at Krav Maga IKMF in Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Boxing Club and Eugene Garrett Jiu Jitsu (2015-2020). Currently a student at Cellar Muay Thai Gym (2020-Present)

I N T E R N A T I O N A L   T R A V E L
T R A V E L : Independent travel to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Japan, India, England, France, Ecuador, Chiapas, Québec, and Russia.  

P R E S E N T A T I O N S
— September 20, 2012 at the Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (SPS) Fireside Speaker Series
The Spectrum of Psychodynamic Interventions: A Comparative Exploration
with David Thompson, PsyD, LP and Matthew Paymar, MA, LPCC
— September 16, 2011 at the Workhaus Collective, The Playwrights’ Center
Comedy & Trauma: Comedy, Joking and Laughter in Relation to 9/11 and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
with Matthew Paymar, MA, LPCC
— December 10, 2023 guest on Hyperbole: The Best Podcast Ever where I discussed with Danielle Arlowe and Amy Zaroff a variety of topics in contemporary psychotherapy (Time stamp: 20:45 - 49:05)

C O N T I N U I N G   E D U C A T I O N   W O R K S H O P S
(Additional post-graduate seminars pursued for professional growth in chosen areas.)
— Making Sense of Anxiety with Phil Oxman, MA, LP

— Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Clinical Social Work with Elizabeth Bohun, LICSW, LMFT

— Eating Disorders: Weighing in on the Facts with Patty Gadberry, LICSW

— Suicidality and Crisis Management Training with Mary Ellen Jaehne, LICSW

— Seminar on Administering Mental Status Exams with Dr. Robert Nesheim, MD

— Professional Ethics Workshop with Mary Ellen Jaehne, LICSW

— Psychological Assessment and Testing with Kate Boyle, PsyD, LP & Pamela Henderson, PsyD, LP

— Psychiatry, Medication and Healing with Dr. Mary Androff, MD

— Cultural Diversity in Psychotherapy with Mike Wilke, MA, LP

— Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Seminar I with Kate Boyle, PsyD

— Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Seminar II with Kate Boyle, PsyD

— Listening and Intervening: Seminar I with Pamela Henderson, PsyD, LP

— Listening and Intervening: Seminar II with Pamela Henderson, PsyD, LP

— The Supervisory Relationship with Kate Boyle, PsyD, LP & Yvonne Nobles, PsyD, LP

— Termination Considerations with Susan Sethna, LICSW

— Psychodynamic Measure: Sequence I with Nancy Bottorff, PsyD, LP

— Psychodynamic Measure: Sequence II with Nancy Bottorff, PsyD, LP

— The Brain and Psychotherapy with Yvonne Nobles, PsyD, LP & Kate Boyle, PsyD, LP

— Attachment and Empathy: Seminar I with Dr. Jim Jordan, MD & Ana Rivera, LICSW

— Attachment and Empathy: Seminar II with Dr. Jim Jordan, MD & Ana Rivera, LICSW

— Client Transference in Psychotherapy: Seminar I with Virginia Vogel, PsyD, LP, & Xan Banker, PsyD, LP

— Client Transference in Psychotherapy: Seminar II with Virginia Vogel, PsyD, LP & Xan Banker, PsyD, LP with Virginia Vogel, PsyD, LP

— Narcissistic & Borderline Spectrum Disorders: Seminar II with Virginia Vogel, PsyD, LP

— Minnesota Professionals for Psychology Applied to Work (MPPAW) with P. William Kirkpatrick, PhD, LP

— The Relational Perspective in Psychoanalysis with Pamela Henderson, PsyD, LP & Yvonne Nobles, PsyD, LP

— Counter-transference in Psychotherapy with Susan Sethna, LICSW

— Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Clinical Social Work: An Easy Identification with Elizabeth Bohun, LICSW, LMFT

— Client Resistance in Psychotherapy with Susan Sethna, LICSW

— Couples Therapy: Seminar I with Mike Wilke, MA, LP

— Couples Therapy: Seminar II with Mike Wilke, MA, LP

— Family Therapy with Mike Wilke, MA, LP

— Integrating Psychodynamic & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Rachel Richardson, LICSW

— Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) with Dr. Mary Androff, MD

— Eating Disorders with Sue Babcock, PsyD, LP & Kate Jalma, PhD

— Historical, Cultural & Clinical Considerations in Working with the Latino Population: Seminar I with Yvonne Nobles, PsyD, LP

— Historical, Cultural & Clinical Considerations in Working with the Latino Population: Seminar II with Yvonne Nobles, PsyD, LP

— Working Ethically & Effectively in Psychotherapy with Dr. Harry J. Aponte, LCSW, LMFT

— Role of Psychotropic Medications in Psychotherapy with Dr. Robert Nesheim, MD

— Working with Seniors—Psychotherapy, Cognitive Functioning & Medication with Robert Mantel, PsyD, LP & Dr. Robert Nesheim, MD

— Depression: New Formulation of the Syndrome with Peter Grant, PhD, LP

— Pharmacogenomic Testing in Clinical Practice with Daniel Hall-Flavin, MD and Josiah Allen from the Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Psychology

— Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) with Rachel Rippel, MA, LP

— Time-Limited Psychodynamic Therapy with Colin Hollidge, MSW, PhD

— Psychological Development and the Hero's Journey:  An integration of Mahler's “Psychological Birth” and Jung's

— Archetypal Perspective on the Hero's Journey with David Thompson, Psy.D., L.P.

— Changing Psychoanalytic Models and Their Clinical Implications: Transference, Listening/Experiencing Perspectives and the Use of the Analyst's Subjectivity with Dr. James Fossage

— Psychoanalytic Case Consultation with Gary Perrin, Ph.D., L.P. and Eric Boone, MSW, LICSW

— A Mentalizing Framework for Treating Personality Disorders in Adolescents, Adults, & Families with Dr. Efrain Bleiberg

— Working with Unconscious Communication with Kirby Ogden, Ph.D., L.P.

— The Persephone Complex and Clinical Applications with Nancy Kulish, Ph.D., Deanna Holtzman, Ph.D., et al.

— Bipolar: An Updated Slant on the Disorder with Jay Carter, PsyD, FPPR, DABPS

— Healing Through Death: Methods to Help Dying Individuals and Their Loved Ones to Find Hope and Healing with Brenda Hartman, MSW, LICSW

— Affect and the Unconscious: Implications for Theory and Practice with Karen Maroda, Ph.D., ABPP

— Listening Analytically with Hal Steiger, Ph.D., L.P.

— Therapeutic considerations with Borderline Personality Disorder: Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Stephen Scherr, PhD  and Brooke Foster

— Surviving Unthinkable Trauma: Dissociation, Delusion and Hallucination with Judith Mitrani, PhD

— The Integral-Relational Approach to Psychotherapy with David Thompson, PsyD, LP

— A Practice Model of Supervision: Psychoanalytic Case Consultation with Gary Perrin, Ph.D., L.P. and Eric Boone, MSW, LICSW

— Donald Meltzer's Four Dimensions of an Analysis with Gloria Levine, PhD, L.P.

— An Overview of Bion's Life with Arnaldo Chuster, M.D., Ph.D., LP

— An Overview of Bion's Theoretical Development with Arnaldo Chuster, M.D., Ph.D., LP

— Psychoanalytic Imagination—Bringing to Life the Psychoanalytic Link with Arnaldo Chuster, M.D., Ph.D., LP

— Depth Psychology Seminar Series: Object Relations, Self Psychology, Relational Psychoanalysis, Existential Psychology, Jungian Psychology with David Thompson, PsyD, LP

— Perfectionism and Its Antidotes: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic View with Thomas Greenspon, Ph.D., L.P., L.M.F.T

— Clinical Supervision: Legal, Ethical and Risk Management Issues with George Haarman, PsyD, LMFT

— Self 2.0: The State of the Psyche 2015 with Aaron Balick, PhD

— Integrating Jungian Thought into Psychoanalytic Therapy with David G. Thompson, Psy.D., L.P. 

— The Social and Performance Anxieties: Improving Symptom Management, Social Confidence, and Personal Effectiveness with Christopher Vye, Ph.D.

IAPSP Annual International Conference
International association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology &
The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy + Psychoanalysis (ICPP)

— Clinical Consultations: A Spontaneous, In-Vivo Supervisory Session With a Senior IAPSP Clinician
with Jill Gardner, PhD, Judith Guss Teicholz, EdD, Katrina Boggiano, LCSW

— Toward Further Understanding of Transferences: Theoretical Evolution, Contribution of Other Sciences, and Clinical Implications with James Fosshage, PhD, Charles Finlon, LCSW, Noah Glassman, PhD, Susan Carroll Berck, PsyD, PhD, Jonathan Raffes, PhD and Joanna Tiemann, PhD

— Child & Adolescents Initiative Presents: Critical Clinical Moments at Crucial Developmental Times
with Anna Ornstein, MD, Christa Paulinz, MA, Med & Talila Hochstadter, MA

— Videotaping the therapist's Face: Video feedback consultation with a patient who does not look
with Beatrice Beebe, PhD & Frank Lachmann, PhD

— Dolph and Gus: The War of the Worlds
with James Herzog, MD, Richard Geist, EdD, Janna Sandmeyer, PhD, Jill Gardner, PhD

— That's Me: Self Psychology Meets the Buddha
with Barry Magid, MD, David Goodman, PhD, David Solomon, MD

— Transforming Traumatic Intensity: Loosening the Ties of Autoerotic Asphyxiation
with Denise Davis, LCSW, David Terman, MD, Elizabeth Corpt, LICSW, Elizabeth Carr, MSN, BC

— Beyond the Clinical Moment: Searching for Realness & Reciprocity in a Long-Term Analytic Relationship
with Malcolm Slavin, PhD, Hazel Ipp, PhD, Annette Richard, MPS, Sarah Mendelsohn, LCSW

— Changing the Physical Aspects of the Analytic Setting: The Impact on the Analyst and the Patient
with Sandra Hershberg, MD, Peter Maduro, JD, PsyD, Gary Perrin, PhD

— The Analyst's Affect: The Way Back from Gridlock, Blindspots and Loss of Vitality
with Maria Slowiaczek, PhD, Heather Furguson, LCSW, MS, Doris Brothers, EdD, Judy Guss Teicholz, EdD

— Personality Disorders in Social Work and Healthcare with Greg Lester, PhD

— Performing HIPAA-Compliant Risk Analysis: A Guided How-To for Mental Health Professionals
with Roy Huggins, LPC NCC; Liath Dalton; and Nicole Kramer, MBA

— LuxSci Webinar: Deep Dive into HIPAA Compliant Email with Erik Kangas

— Attachment, Embodiment and Transformation: Using AEDP to Foster Resilience, Cultivate Empathy and Enhance Relational Capacities - Hamm Memorial Clinic Annual Conference with Benjamin Lipton, L.C.S.W.

— We’re in this Together: Therapist Use of Self to Catalyze Therapeutic Transformation with AEDP
with Benjamin Lipton, L.C.S.W.

— Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): 2-Day Intensive Workshop with Richard C. Schwartz

— Principles Of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: For Analysts And Therapists Who Practice It, And Those Who Won’t with Richard Zeitner

— Language, Culture and Therapy, A Lacanian View with Suzana Duarte Santos Mallard

— A Lacanian Approach to the Unconscious with Annie G. Rogers, PhD

— Existing in One’s Own Heart and Mind: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) in the Treatment of Complex Trauma with Jerry Lamagna

— Trans: How Much Do We Really Want to Know? with Dr. Ethan Grumbach

— Creating an Analytic Process with Richard Gomberg, MD

— The Wounds We Cannot See: Transforming the trauma of oppression with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) with Ben Bedley

— Trauma, Subjectivity and Subjectality with Dominique Scarfone, MD

— The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism with Dr Gabor Maté

— Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination
with Professor Brett Kahr, Dr Ronald Doctor, Dany Nobus, Christiane Sanderson, Dr Thaddeus Birchard, Janice Hiller, Professor Stephen Porges, Dr Meg John Barker, Dr Anton Hart, Joyce Slochower, Cabby Laffy, Chris Oakley, Dr Andrea Celenza, Dr Christopher Clulow, Dr Galit Atlas, Dr Jessica Benjamin, Dr Estela Welldon,

— Disciplined Thinking: Thirdness, Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Barriers to Change
with Alex Samets

— Whiteness as Shame Management System: History, Theory, and Implications for the Psychoanalytic Community with Carter J. Carter, LICSW

— Heart Shattered, the Private Self, and a Life Unlived An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Relentless Despair
with Martha Stark, The New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) Los Angeles

— The Therapeutic Dyad Enlivened by Process, Theory, and Supervision: Three Different Approaches: Three Live Takes
International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP)

— Supervisory Relationships: “Vital Signs” and Individual Differences
with Nancy McWilliams, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), New York

— Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality
with Rabbi Zimmerman, The Minnesota Psychodynamic Clinical Social Work (MPCSWA), Association and the AAPCSW

— Attachment, Dissociation and Exit from the Closed System as the Therapist Becomes Real
with Elizabeth Howell,  Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (Colloquium)

— 2021-22 Seminar Series_The Treatment of Trauma from a Relational Psychoanalytic Perspective
with Jonathan Kurfirst, Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis

— Finding Ourselves in Uncertain Times: Emergent Processes of Change and Transformation
IAPSP International Conference

— Psychoanalysis and Psychedelics
with Megan Rundel, PhD

— Clinical Supervision: Practice & Process
with Robert Taibbi

— The Psychoanalytic Study of Suicide
with Benjamin Herbstman, MD, MHS

— Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Global Summit