I am a clinical psychologist with over 14 years experience assisting teens and families to navigate through these exciting, yet often times turbulent years. I am passionate about my work with youth and wrote my doctoral project on depression among teen girls.
My work history includes the facilitation of psycho-education and process groups with teen mothers, play therapy with pre-adolescent boys, drug and alcohol prevention with at-risk community schools students, and individual and family therapy with youth in residential treatment. I also have experience as a foster care and adoption social worker, developed and currently direct a drop-in teen resource center, and for the past five years have directed Sonoma County's only Transitional Housing Placement Program (THPP) and Transitional Housing-Plus (THP-Plus) programs for youth aging out of foster care.