SPECIALIZED TRAININGS, CERTIFICATIONS & Experience

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) implementation

• Marriage & Couples Therapy

• Child and Family Systems Training & Certification

• Trauma Reprocessing

• Cognitive and Personality Assessments, including the use of the Enneagram

• Chronic Pain & Illness Management (served as program director of Functional Restoration Program in San Diego, CA)

• Pediatric Psychology with emphasis on the impact of childhood chronic illness on the parents and undiagnosed sibling (Dissertation focused on families of children with Prader-Willi Syndrome)

• American Psychological Association (APA) approved Internship at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital in Cognitive Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program and Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program

• APPIC-Accredited Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital (COG and DBT skills programs)

• Program psychologist working with Older Adults in the Senior-IOP at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital

• Over 15 years of experience in providing therapy services