Professional Experience:

I have worked in the fields of education and mental health for over 25 years. I am trained and experienced in child development, child bereavement, adolescent development and adjustment, parenting, crisis, grief, and trauma. My approach is Existential-Humanistic, informed by attachment, modern psychoanalytic, and feminist theories.

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Education & Training:

Masters Degree in Clinical Counseling Psychology from the New College of California, with further graduate level work in clinical & research psychology at The University of Derby, in the UK, and Existential-Humanistic Psychology at Saybrook University. I have additional training in Sand Tray therapy and Career Counseling. 

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My Own Experience as an Expat/Immigrant to France:

I first came to France as a backpacker in 1994, then as a student in 1997, and since then have returned multiple times as a student, a volunteer cheese-maker, and finally as a self-employed professional. I have my own history of learning to navigate daily life, administrative requirements, language acquisition (and struggles!), learning the subtleties of relating in a new culture, as well as the challenges of maintaining important relationships across an ocean. This deep well of personal experiences combined with professional training allows me to have a true understanding of and empathy for clients dealing with struggles in a different culture from that which they've come from. 

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