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My work is shaped by a blend of clinical training, professional experience, and lived experience as a mom, daughter of immigrants, first-gen, and someone who has done the work to break cycles and truly feels passionate to help others do the same.

Curriculum Vitae

DEGREES + CERTIFICATIONS

LMFT
License in Marriage and Family Therapy — California Board of Behavioral Sciences

Post-Master’s Experience as a Pre-licensed AMFT
Associate in Marriage and Family Therapy — California Board of Behavioral Sciences
3 years of clinical training and experience supporting adolescents, young adults, and individuals navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting under supervision with experts in perinatal, child, and adolescent mental health.

M.S, MFCC
Master’s of Science, Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling — San Francisco State University
3 years of training grounded in social justice, cultural humility, and systemic frameworks. Internships completed in graduate program emphasized culturally responsive clinical practice, awareness of oppression and privilege, and influence of sociopolitical context on mental health with adolescents, college students, and young adults.

CEIM
Certified Educator of Infant Massage — Infant Massage USA

Certified Reiki Practitioner
Usui Reiki Certification Training — Sol Healing at 1 the Platform

Post-Baccalaureate Experience
4 years of experience providing case management, care coordination, and developmental assessments to children under 5 years who have been identified as having a developmental disability or mental health challenges and providing emotional support to their parents.

B.A, Psychology
Cal State East Bay University

ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK & TRAINING

  • Reproductive Trauma: Tools for Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, Birth Trauma, and Perinatal Mental Health Disorders — PESI

  • Ages and Stages Questionnaire — Acquired in professional work setting

  • Developmental Assessment for Young Children (DAY-C) — Acquired in professional work setting

  • Batelle Development Inventory (BDI) — Acquired in professional work setting

  • EMDRIA Approved EMDR 5 Day Intensive Training — EMDR Consulting

  • Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice with Deb Dana 6 month training— Rhythm of Regulation

  • Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing for BIPOC — Somatic Experiencing International

  • The Body Keeps the Score 2-day Trauma Conference — Bessel van der Kolk via PESI

  • Trauma Therapy: A Somatic Approach 6 week training — Embodied Philosophy

  • Live workshop with Peter Levine — CIIS

  • Listening to our “No” (A Somatic Practice Mini-Series) — Wildbody Somatics

  • Introduction to Self-Compassion — Kristen Neff