Education

M.A. Mythology and Depth Psychology                          Diploma in Studio Art

M.A. Counseling Psychology                                         School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Pacifica Graduate Institute                                            Boston, MA

Carpinteria, CA

B.A. Sociology

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

Clinical Training

• Sherman School (2013 - 2014) Internship providing school-based play therapy with children ages 5 - 11.
• New Perspectives Center for Counseling (2011-present) Internship providing psychotherapy to adults and children
• USF Center for Family and Child Development (2008-2010) Internship providing school-based psychotherapy for children ages 5 -11
• Professional trainings including mood disorders, addiction, eating disorders, Jungian sand tray, Hakomi, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, dreamwork, art therapy, astrology, art therapy and more.

Publications

Imaginal Horse: Mythopoetic Play with a Resonant Image 

Thesis Abstract

This study explores depth-psychological methods for relating to and playing with images using the horse as an example. As a production thesis utilizing artistic-creative methodology, the discussion of theories is accompanied by their creative application toward original painting and writing. Heuristic and alchemical hermeneutic methodologies are used to integrate depth-psychological, poetically-inspired, and imaginally-based research. The term image is interpreted broadly to include visual, verbal, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, intuitive, and emotional phenomena-- prima materia as Carl G. Jung called it. Inspired by James Hillman's ideas, the thesis models the encouragement, nourishment, and engagement of imagination. A developed imagination is a human faculty that can birth new insights, stories, and images. The cultivation of innovative ways of seeing, hearing, and telling applies directly to a psychotherapy that wants to help a client and a culture move out of painful, unhealthy, or stagnant ways of functioning toward feelings of joy and fulfillment.