BIO

I am a licensed psychotherapist and massage therapist, a certified Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, and a meditation teacher.

My formal education includes a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in physiological psychology and neuroscience from the University of Florida, and an MA in counseling psychology from Antioch University.

I studied massage at the Santa Barbara School of Massage in 1984 and Rosen Method Bodywork at the Rosen Method Bodywork Center Southwest from 1996-99. Over the years I have also trained and studied numerous healing modalities and techniques that have gradually integrated themselves into my work with people. I am currently in Core Training for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) founded by Diana Fosha.

I began meditating on a daily basis in 1988 and have continued to this day. My practice has gone through many changes as I have studied with various teachers in different traditions. These range from Goenka-style Vipassana to the more Western-style based on the Mahasi and Forest Thai methods, as well as Jason Siff of the Skillful Meditation Project who developed an approach called Anupassana, or Recollective Awareness. I was in teacher-training with him from 2005-2007. I taught inmates in New Mexico prisons with Heart Mountain Prison Project from 2003-2006 and was president of the Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha from 2003-2005. I currently lead a weekly meditation group in Santa Fe and offer periodic retreats.

My interest is the integration of Eastern, particularly Buddhist, psychology and Western psychology. I hold the belief that a healthy self can more easily be liberated and see the middle path as one that weaves itself back and forth between these two different views. All my work reflects this vision.