BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Private practice in Berkeley for more than twenty-five years, specializing in helping adults, couples, and adolescents with difficult and long-standing psychological problems
• Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from John F. Kennedy U. in 1985
• Bachelor of Arts (English) degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972
• Marriage and Family Therapist License, California 1988
• Clinical Member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
• Member, East Bay Chapter of CAMFT
• President, East Bay Counseling Choices
• Ongoing education at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, extension division
• Supervisor, Crisis Support Services of Alameda County, 1995 – 2005
• Parent group leader for Kids’ Turn, an educational workshop for families coping with divorce
• Certified Supervisor for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) since 2003