​I became a therapist following a lifetime of experience. After working in several careers ranging from ranching to restaurants to technology, I went back to school in my 40’s and completed a BA in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. From there I went straight to graduate school to follow my calling as a therapist.
 
As a child, I witnessed my mother’s mental illness and the suffering she endured. At that time, there weren’t many good treatments for personality disorders. As an adult, I have been helped by therapists to make sense of my experience and learned to change the unhelpful beliefs and responses that I developed growing up. Through that experience and my own passion for the latest research, I’ve found real hope for issues that were not long ago considered irremediable.