My story
I did not expect that I’d become a psychotherapist. It took me by surprise. I had careers in technology, education, and the arts, but during the pandemic all of that fell away. I was adrift.
After what felt like forever, I started taking my dreams seriously. I followed the breadcrumbs where they led. Life started feeling lighter, and I knew I was on the trail of something big.
I spent a year at the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline, talking with people in their darkest moments. I earned my MS in Counseling at Cal State East Bay, where I completed my master’s thesis in Therapeutically Applied Role Playing Games. I started working in community mental health at the Marina Counseling Center and the Liberation institute. Now I work with veterans through the VA and with the general population in private practice.
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“Moments when the original poet in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations of the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking”
Marion Milner
On Not Being Able to Paint
