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Beverly Hills, CA | (805) 295 0020
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I'm a behavioral therapist, which means I use only evidence-based interventions (methods that have been proven to work) to treat mental health conditions. The backbone of my practice is Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), supplemented with strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Both modalities are effective in helping people understand and change their behavior. I use additional approaches when clinically indicated and, of course, sometimes laughter is medicine! As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), I assess and treat my clients in the context of their environment, and I practice with a nonjudgmental, anti-racist, sex-positive, and gender/identity/lifestyle-affirming stance. I earned my Master of Science Degree in Social Work, Advanced Clinical Practice, at Columbia University in New York City. There, I was appointed to a fellowship in the DBT Training Program, which was founded with DBT developer Marsha Linehan. I served a CBT-focused clinical field placement at David Szuster Psychiatry in New York City, followed by a placement at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, where I worked in the DBT Transitional Living Program and the DBT Intensive Outpatient Program. I completed DBT Intensive Training through the Linehan Institute's training company, Behavioral Tech, and was trained in CBT Essentials, CBT for Depression, and CBT for Anxiety by the Beck Institute, which was founded by CBT developer Aaron Beck. I completed Intensive Training in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) with CPT developer Kathleen Chard, and Fundamentals of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) through the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), which was founded by EFT developer Sue Johnson. I learned Prolonged Grief Disorder Treament (PGDT) through the Center for Prolonged Grief Disorder at Columbia, where it was developed by Katherine Shear. Before opening my private practice, I worked at both Behavioral Psych Studio in New York City and Westside DBT in Los Angeles, where I specialized in treating suicidality, self-harm, and BPD. In addition to my work as a therapist, I provide consultation, supervision, and training to other clinicians, as well as expert comment in publications such as Newsweek and Everyday Health. My clients are vibrant, intelligent individuals who sometimes face challenges regulating their emotions, controlling their impulses, maintaining their relationships, and being compassionate toward themselves. I also see people who struggle with overthinking, mood fluctuations, and low self-esteem. Often, folks reach out after losing a loved one (companion animals included), or in the midst of a conflict or transition. I work frequently with arts and entertainment professionals, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, corporate leaders, and those whose loved ones have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
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I studied Cultural Anthropology for my Bachelors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received my masters in counseling at Regis University in Denver. I believe that counseling and mental health is more than just a client developing skills, and that all human beings have intelligence and capacity for understanding of themselves deeply in the world. I feel skills should be used towards the purpose of intellectual, emotional and relational understanding of themselves in a substantial way. * I worked on the floor at an inpatient psychiatric hospital for four years while I was getting my Masters. And I believe anyone who works in mental health should have to do some time working in a mental hospital to really get a grasp on what mental health actually is, but also, what our U.S. mental health system actually is, and how it works and functions. Since getting my masters, I’ve been working in a non-profit, community mental health as a therapist. And I recently started my private practice on the side. I hope to be full-time private practice within the next two years. I was just thinking lately that may be I’m kind of like a Robinhood kind of Counselor. I feel that I can help the full economic range of people. While giving myself a good standard of living, I can still help people that are struggling wit their mental health at the lower economic levels to achieve their life dreams as well. I am also looking for therapists that perhaps think similarly as myself and want to form a consult group and meet regularly video or in person. * I’m a bit of a philosopher and have been publishing, a philosophy blog for the past near 14 years. And in the past few years, I’ve been publishing papers on the nature of counseling as a discipline. Presently I’m just about to publish a book called “Counseling and Orientation”. Thanks for reading. Let me know !
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