Licensure

New Mexico LISW: C-08692

Along with my private practice, I am also a qualified New Mexico Clinical Social Work Supervisor, and can provide supervision hours when needed to non-independent practitioners.

Trainings and Certifications

Certifications

  • Completed 40-hour MDMA-Assisted Therapy therapist training through California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS) & MAPS.ORG (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)/MBPC (Maps Public Benefit Corporation).
  • 2021-2022 – Certificate of Completion for Pscychedelic Social Justice through Chacruna Institute
  • 2021-2022 – School of Transformational Facilitation, with Vanessa Stone, ongoing consultation as of 2024
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level 1 (Sept. 2012-June 2013, Anne Westcott/Lana Epstein). Supervision additionally with Anne Westcott throughout 2012-2013.
  • EMDR, Levels I-II (Feb. 2012, Deany Laliotis). Supervision additionally with Dr. Deborah Korn (in 2012), Suzanne Borstein (2012-2013).
  • Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies (Sept. 2011-May 2012, Drs. Bessel van der Kolk, Margaret Blaustein, Elizabeth Warner, Joseph Spinazzola, Fran Grossman, and Lyn Sanford, and many others who are leaders in the study of the neurobiology of trauma and treatment). Trauma-informed supervision with Drs. Marla Zucker and Dawna Gabowitz; and with LICSW Jamie Wood Chiarelli.
  • Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA and ACC are a motivational-interviewing approach for working with addiction and other dysfunctional behaviors) (Jan. 2011, Drs. Bob and Jane Miller).
  • Certification in MDMA-Assisted Therapy (2018, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in coordination with MAPS.ORG)
  • Certified Daring Way(TM)/Rising Strong(TM) Facilitator, since May 2018
  • Diversity, Culture, and Social Justice in Psychedelics and Psychedelics (May 2021, Chacruna Institute)

Completed Trainings

  • Internal Family Systems Online Circle (September 2020-March 2021) which refined therapeutic exploration of parts that helped clients survive their traumas but are now causing limitation and defenses that are causing issues, and facilitation of those parts into functional parts of their adult identities.
  • EMDR Master Class: The Dance of Attachment – An EMDR Relational Approach with Deany Laliotis  (March 2021) – continuing the use of EMDR to work with attachment wounds which are often lowercase “t” trauma wounds at the relational level.
  • Brainspotting, Level 1 (2019, Roberto Weisz)
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Process (AEDP) (October 2014, Natasha Prenn)
  • Psychotherapy, Nutrition, & the Brain (September 2014, Sam Schaffer & Harold Steinberg)
  • Attachment-Based EMDR with Children (June 2012, Anna Gomez)
  • Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Framework (2011, Drs. Margaret Blaustein and Kristin Kinnibergh)
  • Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Therapy for Children (SMART) (2011, Dr. Warner). Supervision additionally with Anne Westcott.
  • Motivational Interviewing (2011)
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (2011, EFT)
  • Suicide Prevention and Assessment Trained Trainer (2011, JRI)

Professional Affiliations

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Alumni (Member since 2012)
  • NASW (Member since 2008)
  • Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life (Fellow since 2010)
  • Phi Beta Kappa (Member since 1995)

Education

Simmons College – Boston, MA                                                  May 2010
Degree: Master of Social Work
Awards and honors: Summa Cum Laude, Iris MacRae Award (May 2010), Graduate Honor Board (2009-2010)

Albert Schweitzer Fellow – Boston                                           July 2009-May 2010
Project: Meditation with at-risk youth; over 200 service hours provided. Created and implemented a collaborative approach to practicing meditation with two groups of at-risk, previously adjudicated male youth (ages 16-21). Provided over 100 hours of direct service and 100 hours in writing evidence-based, trauma-informed meditation curriculum incorporating participant and clinics’ feedback.

University of Vermont – Burlington, VT                                      May 1997
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Double major: Comparative Religion and English; Minor: Psychology
Awards and honors: Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa (since 1995), Buckham Scholar 1993-1994