ABOUT ME
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #83812 in California; #T1913 Oregon). I have been serving the community in the East Bay since 2008 and have been based in the San Ramon Valley since 2014.
My professional experience is diverse: I have worked in the community with families of youth with significant behavioral problems, in a specialized classroom setting with teens experiencing anxiety, self-esteem issues, and depression; in community-based organizations working with people experiencing psychosis and dissociation from complex trauma, schizophrenia, and bipolar diagnoses, and in my private practice working with people who experience above mentioned problems as well as relationship issues, phobias, and more.
My theoretical orientation is an attachment-based practice that centers around the cutting edge treatment Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM). I am local to the greater East Bay Area of San Francisco, including San Ramon, Danville, Dublin, and Pleasanton, but serve all of California and Oregon via telehealth.
What is comprehensive resource model (CRM)?
Comprehensive Resource Model, or CRM, is a trauma treatment model which facilitates targeting of traumatic experiences by bringing the deepest parts of the brain that hold the pain of what happened to us that should not have (or the pain of what did not happen but should have happened) to the purest parts of self, which all have, even if it has become forgotten due to the the things we have experienced in life. CRM works by using internal resources such as attachment neurobiology, beneficial affiliation neurochemistry, breathwork skills, brain neuroplasticity, our deep connection to the natural world for survival, toning (creating sound) and sacred geometry, and one’s relationship with self, our intuition, and higher consciousness. The sequencing and combination of these resources allow us to step in to the unbearable emotions and memories while being fully present in our bodies, which then creates a mismatch between the pain in the memory and being here in the present. This mismatch promotes reconsolidation of the memory so that it is laid back down into the brain without holding the distress/unbearable emotion it previously had. This reorients the whole brain and nervous system’s functioning.