Professional Goals

• an ongoing commitment to end dualistic and dichotomous divisions between the sacred and the secular.

• the empowerment of humanity through:

• assertiveness training.
• facilitation of greater body-acceptance.
• the inclusion of feminist scholarship and matriarchal values whenever possible.
• education regarding the dangers of Patriarchal values and structures.
• the creation of authenticity circles for psychological and spiritual support.
• the creation of psycho-spiritual training programs that offer practical tools for surviving and thriving in a Patriarchal monotheistic culture.
• participation in campaigns targeting media images that spread fear, endorse violence and promote sexism or racism.

• social justice advocacy for the inclusion of excluded and disenfranchised people, places and things.

• the fostering of self-directed learning in students and clients

• writings about the intersection of psychology and spirituality, in varied forms of media

• the creation of a private practice that offers a safe and sacred space in which people can look honestly at themselves and their lives, in relation to the existential tenants of freedom, choice and responsibility

• continuing self education, self actualization, and expanding areas of expertise

• ongoing expressions of love for, and belief in, all that is sacred in friends, family, peers, colleagues and clients.

Education & Training

Michigan School of Professional Psychology
(formerly Center for Humanistic Studies)– Farmington Hills MI

• Doctorate of Psychology 2006
• Psy. S Clinical and Humanistic Psychology 2004
• MA Clinical and Humanistic Psychology 1998

The University of Michigan – Dearborn, MI

• BA Clinical Psychology 1996

Relevant Experience

• Existential and Phenomenological Psychology
• Core Concepts in Humanistic Psychology
• Identity and Family Transactions
• Practicum in Clinical Psychology
• Master's Thesis Project

Voyage Counseling Center
Farmington Hills MI (4/04 -6-09)

Oakland Community College
Royal Oak & Southfield MI (7/03 - periodically ongoing)

Adjunct professor of psychology, teaching Intro Psych and Abnormal Psych to classes of 30-35 students. Multiple intelligence and experiential formats used whenever possible.

South Woodward Clinic
Birmingham, MI (6/03 to 4/04)

Private practice psychotherapy offering service to adults, adolescents and children, with emphasis on anxiety disorders, dual diagnosis, addiction & recovery, relapse prevention, women’s empowerment, Borderline Personality Disorder, and depressive disorders. Modalities include: Solution-focused therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, behavior modification / systematic desensitization. Clinic closed after 20 years, all therapists relocated.

Inner Dynamics
Waterford MI (5/99 to 6/03)

Private practice psychotherapy offering services to adults, families, and children, with emphasis on women’s empowerment and adolescent and child therapy.

Insight Recovery Services
Clarkston MI (6/02 ongoing)

Residential and outpatient therapy, specializing in CDMI (chemical dependency and mental illness / dual diagnosis). Clients are in the early stages of sobriety. Therapy focuses on the identification of relapse triggers and plans for same, the establishment of a sober support group, 12-step sponsor, regular eating and sleeping patterns, and the replacement of negative self talk with positive. CBT techniques used to identify distorted thinking styles that may lead to relapse. DBT techniques used to minimize impulsive behaviors. RET techniques used to deal with cravings and urges.

Sequoia Recovery Services
Pontiac, MI (11/00 to 4/02)

Program Director – S.A.M.I. Program (Substance Abuse Mental Illness)

A joint effort between the Office of Substance Abuse Services and Community Mental Health, providing IOP treatment of dual diagnosis, with domiciliary housing next door. 24-90 days of residential treatment, followed by 6-12 months of outpatient aftercare and ongoing mentoring & alumni activities.

Communities against Minors in Possession (CAMP) 11/00-4/02)
Program Director – Adolescent Services

Education and prevention in a weekend camp setting for minors in possession.Responsible for all facets of operation – scheduling of speakers, lesson plans, court-compliance standards, food, lodging, drug screening, assessments, report writing and 16 hours of didactic materials each weekend.

Easter Seals (Formerly Community Mental Health)
Pontiac, MI (3/99-3/01)

Collaborative Solutions, The ACE program and Step Forward

Mental health clinician working in a collaborative effort between the Office of Substance Abuse and CMH, designed to reduce recidivism and relapse. Clients are “dually diagnosed” having both a mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis on Axis 1, with actual or high risk of criminal involvement.

Catholic Social Services of Wayne County
Detroit, MI (12/98-3/99)

Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Grant funded therapist

HAVEN
Pontiac, Mi (11/95-3/96)

Crisis counselor - 20 bed domestic violence shelter:

The Common Ground Sanctuary
Pontiac, MI (8/95-1/99)
(In conjunction with Oakland County Community Mental Health)

Telephone Emergency Services provider (4-98 to 1-99)

Mental Health Technician (2-96 to 4-98)

Presentations / Lectures

Old McMensa had a meeting, EIEIO: 
Emotional Intelligence Enhances IQ opportunities"
SouthEastern Michigan Mensa, Southfield MI, Nov 2006

Humanistic Interventions with Substance Abusing Clients
Gateway Counseling Center, Madison Hgts, MI – Nov. 2005

Spirituality and Psychotherapy
Clean House Inc, Southfield MI – Jan. 2005

Humanistic Interventions with Substance Abusing Clients
Center for Humanistic Studies, Farmington Hills MI – Nov. 2004

Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder & Post Partum Depression
Bingham Farms Obstetrics – Bingham Farms, MI – Sept. 2004

Bipolar Disorder, Substance Induced Mood Disorder & Psychiatric Meds
47th District Court, Farmington Hills, MI – Sept. 2004

Integrating Psychology and Spiritual Traditions in Psychotherapy Practice
Assoc. of Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition Conference, Covington, KY - July 2004

Working with Treatment Resistant Clients
Center for Humanistic Studies, Farmington Hills, MI – Nov 2003

Dual Diagnosis: Addiction & Mental Illness
Wayne State University, Detroit MI – Sept 2002

Dual Diagnosis: Humanistic Approaches
Center for Humanistic Studies, Detroit, MI – March 2002

Anger Management / Impulse Control
Lakeland High School, White Lake, MI – 2002

Dual Diagnosis treatment in Oakland County
Crisis Line supervisors – Common Ground Sanctuary, Pontiac, MI – October 2001

Rational Emotive Therapy and the ABC’s of Distortion Recovery
Insight at Columbiere, Clarkston, MI – ongoing

Publications

Touchstone - A local spiritual-interest publication
1998 - Dragons in the 21st Century

Oak Leaves - A world wide members only journal for Druids
1999 - A Wobbly Bard at Imbolc
2000 - Catching Fire on Beltaine

Sage Woman - A national women's spirituality magazine
2000 - The 28 day year (a poem)

TALK Journal: Journal for the Association of Enneagram
Teachers in the Narrative Tradition
2008 – A four and a nine crawl into a bed

Guanyin: Compassion embodied. 
In P. Monaghan (Ed.), Goddesses in World Culture.  Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010
Goddesses in World Culture is a three-volume series, each volume composed of 20-25 previously unpublished articles in classics, folklore, anthropology, literature, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, religious studies and feminist studies. The volumes are divided geographically, with each volume offering a variety of images of the sacred feminine.  This author contributed a chapter on the Chinese Goddess of Compassion, Guanyin.