I’m a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Lic. # 80747). I have an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley.
I’ve worked with individuals from diverse walks of life and have a respect for the many ways in which humans can be dissimilar, whether that be in terms of age, race, ethnicity, citizenship or immigration statuses, language, income, political affiliations, religion/spiritual path/atheism, abilities, and gender and sexual identities. I’ve also worked in a variety of environments, including schools, domestic violence shelters, community mental health clinics, and prisons.
Working with people over the last 15 years as a social worker and therapist has confirmed a number of deeply held convictions: the more we know ourselves the more we can know and love others; our capacity to love is infinite, and that; often what has caused us pain, when confronted, can be what helps us become whole again. I’m grateful to have this vocation and the opportunity to commit myself to the life long study of the human soul and spirit.