During graduate school I focused on Clinical Social Work and also Inter-group Dialogue. This enhanced my abilities at facilitating conversations that strive to create new levels of understanding, relating, and action. My skills were further sharpened, while working in Los Angeles, Seattle and then internationally with a range of individuals in areas of: New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, South Africa and Egypt. After traveling, I settled in Hawaii where I spent over ten years advocating and working with individuals dealing with multiple mental health diagnoses alongside poverty and houselessness.
Presently, I work with adults of all ages experiencing instability in various facets of their lives. These challenges include the pursuit of higher education, job/income loss, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, homelessness, anger management, incarceration, self-esteem issues, historical/ancestral trauma, micro-aggressions, chronic pain and loss of support systems.
Though I tend to draw from Cognitive Behavioral and Person-Centered therapies; I believe in an Integrative Therapy approach, seeing that it can be a combination of various forms of therapy that can be more inclusive, flexible and likely allowing more collaboration between client and therapist. I mainly practice Telehealth via my own private practice based in Hawaii; and via Headway in California, Washington and Alabama.
