In Private Practice: Focus on working with adults and adolescents with immediate situational stressors or ongoing personal or interpersonal issues. Areas of attention include exploration of personal identity; racial, gender, sexual, and role identities, especially in the context of family of origin; navigating challenges in parenting children of all ages; coping with the strain of being a caregiver to another with significant needs; and managing major medical illness or mild to moderate TBIs. Ability to manage mild to moderate depression and anxiety as well as other psychiatric issues in a private practice setting. Warm, nurturing, accepting style balanced with an ability to gently hold clients accountable to their own goals and stated values. Strong boundaries.At Kaiser: Specializing in adult and adolescent individual, family, and group therapy. Extensive experience with family therapy and teaching parenting skills, specifically around parenting teens. Expertise treating families struggling with severe eating disorders in an intensive outpatient setting. Psychodynamically trained and focused, but also comfortable with using CBT and DBT interventions when appropriate. Well-versed in working on a multidisciplinary team to best serve the whole child and family system. Interested in continuing to find ways to bridge experience in secondary education as a teacher and work as a psychotherapist.