Certifications

Voice Dialogue     Sacred Rivers Healing - Boulder, Colorado

End of Life Sacred Passage Doula         Conscious Dying Institute of Boulder, Colorado

Suicide Prevention               MAPS - West Bloomfield, Michigan

Officiant             Universal Life Church

TRAININGS

NAJC Conference                                       Nat’l Association of Jewish Chaplains, Jerusalem, Israel

Three day conference for chaplains of all faiths, psychotherapists, and spiritual care workers with an emphasis on palliative care.

Divorce Busting                                                                        Boulder, Colorado

Three day workshop with marriage expert Michele Weiner-Davis.

Gestalt                                    Boulder Psychotherapy Institute - Boulder, Colorado           Completed 56 hours of experiential Gestalt Therapy training with Betty Cannon. Ph.D.

Teaching Peace       Restorative Justice Society of Boulder County, Colorado

Facilitator and community member of Restorative Justice Circles in Boulder Valley Public Schools and Boulder County Sheriff Department’s Juvenile Justice Program.

Grief Work         Marin Suicide Prevention & Grief Counseling Center – San Rafael, California

Mystery School            Nine Gates – Sonoma, California

Studied intimately for one year with Gay Luce, David Patten and master healers from           diverse cultures and traditions from around the world.

Training Program in the Cultivation of Human Capacities                                  Pomona, New York

Three year cutting edge program of study with Jean Houston and Robert Masters in advanced techniques for working with large and small groups within the field of personal growth and human potential.

Native Hawaiian Healing Immersion           Hawaii, Hawaii

Week long training immersion with native Hawaiian Kahuna.

Supervision   Boulder, Colorado & Ann Arbor, Michigan

To maintain the highest level of integrity, it is essential for me to nourish my personal journey as well as stay cutting edge in my field. To this end, I participate in ongoing individual and group supervision and continuously expand my experience through my own spiritual practice and by training in various psychotherapeutic and healing modalities.

Continuing Education              Online, Ann Arbor, Michigan & Boulder, Colorado

Ongoing trainings in topics such as: Diversity, Opioid Crisis, Human Trafficking, Sexuality and Aging, Psychopharmacology, Safety and Communicable Diseases, Cultural Humility, etc.

Specialties

           ▸ Quality of Life ▸ Youth at Risk

▸ Transitions ▸ Young Adults and College Students

▸ Women's Issues ▸ Suicidology and Crisis Intervention

▸ Couples ▸ Cancer Coaching

▸ Groups ▸ Supervision

▸ Divorce - Process and Recovery ▸ Military Personnel and Veterans

▸ Family and Parenting Education ▸ Grief

▸ End of Life ▸ Depression & Anxiety

▸ Gender and Sexuality ▸ Retreats

▸ Pre-marital counseling ▸ Ritual & Spirituality - Rites of Passage    

Modalities

Concrete     Experiential                

           ▸ Solution Focused Brief Therapy ▸ Voice Dialogue

▸ Cognitive & Dialectical Behavior Therapy ▸ Gestalt

▸ Family Systems ▸ End of Life - Sacred Passage  

▸ Grief Counseling ▸ Narrative and Use of Metaphor

▸ Crisis Intervention ▸ Somatic and Conscious Trance

▸ Suicide Prevention ▸ Holistic and Integrative

▸ Parenting Ed, including Love & Logic ▸ Dream Work

▸ Reality Therapy ▸ Existential

▸ Mindfulness, Strength Based Practice▸ Creative Visualization & Guided Imagery