ABOUT ME
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT 134519 CA), Hawaii State license pending 2023
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC 10891 CA)
MA Counseling Psychology - California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
BA - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Fellowship - Family Structural Therapy with Charles Fishman MD/Jason Keifer MD (2017-2022)
EFT Externship with Rebecca Jorgensen PhD - 2017
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) – Level 3
Essential Skills – Advanced Training (95 hours). San Francisco - 2016-2017
Essential Skills – Training (95 hours). San Francisco - 2015-2016
Immersion with Diana Fosha, PhD. (40 hours). Berkeley – 2015
Meditation and Mindfulness-Based Practices
Mindful Fundamentals 16 hours – Mindful Schools – January 2018
Mindful Educator Series – Mindful Schools – January 2018
MBSR - Mindful Based Stress Reduction 8-week course – Richard Hennessey LCSW – February 2018
Prison Dharma/VolinCor at WCCC – Vipassana Hawaii, Honolulu – Oct 2017- present
Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), Jack Kornfield PhD. and Tara Brach PhD. - Two-year training in progress. Santa Cruz, CA, May 2017 – May 2019
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Kristin Neff PhD, Michael Klein PhD. – eight-week group participant, San Francisco - 2016
Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Michael Klein PhD – 2 eight-week groups – San Francisco – 2014 and 2016
Spirit Rock Metta Silent Vipassana Retreat, Jack Kornfield PhD & Sylvia Boorstein PhD - Woodacre, CA - 2014
Spirit Rock Women’s Silent Vipassana Retreat - Woodacre, CA - 2013
Spirit Rock Metta Silent Vipassana Retreat, Sylvia Boorstein PhD – Woodacre, CA – 2012
General Psychotherapy
Non-dual retreatant with Riyaz Motan LMFT
EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship, Rebecca Jorgensen PhD @ Argosy University – Honolulu - December 2017
Hawaii Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Clinicians course – July 2017
Eating Disorders: An Integrative Approach to Treatment Seminar @ Argosy University, Dr. Anita Johnston – Honolulu – July 2017
Hawaii Harm Reduction Conference 2017 – Dr. Carl Hart, MD – Honolulu – January 2017
Healing Shame 2-Day Workshop, Bret Lyon PhD & Sheila Rubin LMFT, Berkeley, CA - Oct 2016
Dan Siegel MD, Attachment in Couples Therapy, San Francisco - April 2016
Bessel Van der Kolk MD, Trauma, Attachment, and Neuroscience Seminar, San Francisco – 2015
Gestalt Theory and Therapy, Gieve Patel LMFT – San Francisco - 2015
Hoffman Process graduate, Napa, CA - 2011
PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERPAY MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS – Current
California Association Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (CALPCC)
California Association of Marriage Family Therapist (CAMFT)
Hawaii Psychological Association (HPA)
Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Mental Health Counselor Association - AMHCA
American Association of Marriage Family Therapy - AAMFT Clinical Fellow Distinction
“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
Victor Frankl