I have been licensed as a psychologist-master in Vermont since 2004. I help people improve their health and well-being using cognitive-behavioral strategies and biofeedback. In addition, I incorporate existential approaches, motivational interviewing and mindfulness into therapy. My interventions generally follow a time-limited, solution-focused and goal-oriented model of therapy.

My educational background includes a BS in Psychology from Northern Arizona University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Health Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in 2008. 

My clinical specialty areas include chronic pain, posttraumatic stress, return to work issues, functional restoration, stress and related illnesses, anxiety, coping with illness, and depression. I have extensive training and experience using biofeedback as a component of therapy to address physical and psychophysiological components of anxiety, pain and illness. My practice utilizes acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, as a framework for helping people learn strategies to live life more in the present, more focused on important values and goals, and less focused on painful thoughts, feelings and experiences. Rather than focusing solely on reducing symptoms, I believe treatment should be aimed at helping people achieve their highest level of functioning and happiness no matter what uncontrollable circumstances are present in their lives.

My professional experience includes serving as a staff therapist and Director of Psychological Testing at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, California. 

In addition to providing psychotherapy and assessment services, I have also coordinated interdisciplinary treatment programs that combine physical, occupational, and cognitive-behavioral therapies to assist individuals with chronic pain to achieve their highest level of functioning possible and minimize the impact their pain has on their lives. I have been in private practice since 2007.