About My Practice
My Approach
I specialize in clinically grounded depth-oriented psychotherapy, integrating Jungian, archetypal, and psychodynamic approaches to facilitate deep psychological healing and transformation through dream work, sandplay, exploration of your life, somatic interventions, and relational psychotherapy. We develop a clinically grounded evidence based treatment plan together to address your unique needs. My approach is:
Relational – Healing happens in connection. Together, we cultivate a safe, attuned space for transformation.
Imaginal – We work with dreams, symbols, and creative expression as bridges to the unconscious.
Integrative – The aim is wholeness— living authentically with embodied soul/ Psyche. Psyche is calling you to something deeper, more alive.
Clinical Focus
Anxiety, Mood disorders, depression
Individuation: Phase of life challenges, identity development, Life transitions, Quarter-life, Mid-life, Loss of meaning, Existential and Spiritual Crisis
Grief and Loss
Assessment and support for young people at risk of or experiencing extreme states or first episode psychosis
Challenges in Relationship and Intimacy
Parenting
Trauma, including early life trauma/attachment, Post traumatic stress disorder
Burnout and creative blocks
Dream work, Active Imagination, process arts
Men’s Issues
Training
As an undergraduate, I studied Philosophy and Classics at the University of San Francisco. I earned a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Counseling, and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. My ongoing training in Analytical Psychology (Jungian) focuses on supporting the individuation process throughout the lifespan.
I am currently training in Relational Psychodynamic Therapy (RPT) through the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute. This approach brings together psychodynamic depth psychology, contemporary relational psychoanalysis, and interpersonal neurobiology.
My additional training includes trauma-informed care, process arts, dream tending, Jungian sandplay therapy, substance use treatment, and assessment and diagnosis, including the SCID-5 and SIPS. I also hold a CADC.
Professional Memberships
Oregon Counselors Association
Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute — first-year RPT training member
Sandplay Therapists of America — Associate Member
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Research
My research is qualitative, using an alchemical hermeneutic approach to explore unconscious communication in the therapy dyad as well as other areas of focus on the therapeutic encounter—those moments of silence, symbols, and felt-sense knowing that shape the healing process. My thesis, The Curious Bottle: Unconscious Communication in the Relational Field (2022), examines the symbolic and unspoken dimensions of the therapeutic relationship. This work deepens my understanding of symbolic processes, transference dynamics, and the unspoken dimensions of therapeutic change. I continue to write on unconscious communication and the use of countertransference in treatment. This work has deepened my understanding of the language of the unconscious—its symbols, transference currents, and transformative potentials. I continue to write on these liminal exchanges, particularly the role of countertransference as a vessel for meaning and change.