Trainings, Workshops, & Webinars

Simple Practice Learning – Treating Relationships with Only One Person w/ Heather M. Berberet (June 22, 2024)

Simple Practice Learning – Twice Exceptional Clients: Clinical Considerations w/ Grace Malonai (June 22, 2024)

Simple Practice Learning – Contemporary Psychodynamic Theory Across Paradigms w/ Douglas Lane (June 20, 2024)

Simple Practice Learning – “Pure O” OCD: Identification & Treatment w/ Nikki Rubin (June 19, 2024)

Cascadia Training – If It’s Not in the Record, It Didn’t Happen – Or Did It? Law & Ethics of Effective Documentation and Record Keeping for Mental Health Professionals w/ Eric Ström (May 17, 2024)

OPC – Racial Melancholia, Guilt, and Repair w/ David L. Eng & Shinhee Han (Nov. 11, 2023)

OPC – Beyond Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy w/ Cynthia Ellis Gray & Sara Gardiner (Monthly, Oct 2023–May 2024)

Sierra Tucson – The Stigma of Borderline Personality Disorder w/ James Seymour (Sept. 15, 2023)

OPC – Postcards from the Edge: Conceptualizing & Treating Patients w/ Borderline Personality Organization w/ Ann Sola (Four sessions, Apr 6- 27, 2023)

OFJ – Trauma, Innocence and the Core Complex of the Dissociating Psyche w/ Donald Kalsched (April 14, 2023)

Trauma Super Conference 3 – Understanding Mother Hunger w/ Kelly McDaniel (Feb 27, 2023)

Trauma Super Conference 3 — Using the Change Triangle to Understand Emotions w/ Hilary Jacobs Hendel (Feb 14, 2023)

Inviting Death to Tea: Trauma-informed, Relational Care for Assessing Chronic Suicidal Ideation & Behavior w/ Tyson Bailey (Feb 4, 2023)

Couples Institute – Therapeutic Leadership: Tools for Confronting Regression, Narcissism, & Hostility w/ Ellyn Bader (Feb 3, 2023)

Gestalt Therapy Training Group w/ Dr. Jon Frew (Nine sessions, Nov 2022 – June 2023)

Gestalt Therapy 2022: Introductory Workshop w/ Dr. Jon Frew (Oct. 14, 2022)

Collective Trauma Summit 2022 – Creating Environments of Safety & Trust through Polyvagal Theory w/ Stephen Porges (Oct. 10, 2022)

Collective Trauma Summit 2022 – The Undeniable Link of Illness & Well-being to our Collective Ecosystem w/ Gabor Maté (Oct. 8, 2022)

OFJ – Finding the Self in Relationship: Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Paths to Psychic Development w/ Dunbar Carpenter & Maribeth Kallemeyn (Six sessions, Oct 2-Nov 20, 2022)

Yale – Childhood Trauma, Affect Regulation, and BPD w/ Bessel Van Der Kolk (Replayed July 16, 2022; Originally 2013)

AHPDX – Gender Affirming Care w/ Molly McHenry FNP (June 10, 2022)

RLT – The Healing Power of Relationships Summit (May 24 - May 27, 2022)

IOS – The Influence of Wilhelm Reich on Fritz Perls and the Development of Gestalt Therapy w/ Daniel Schiff (May 1, 2022)

OFJ – Reciprocity: What We’ve Always Known w/ Jeanne Lacourt, Jerome Bernstein, & Lisa Pounders (Apr. 22, 2022)

OFJ – Relationship as a Spiritual Path: The Present Heart w/ Polly Young-Eisendrath (Mar. 25, 2022)

ECare Behavioral Health Institute – Unmasking Manipulative Relationships: Effective Strategies for Countering Covert Abuse w/ Ellen Biros (Mar. 10, 2022)

OFJ – Archetypes, Aesthetics & Culture in the Art of African Diaspora w/ Dr. Alan Vaughan (Feb 18, 2022)

U of O + EFJ – Letting My Heart Be Broken: Healing Cultural Trauma w/ Dr. Fanny Brewster (Feb 11, 2022)

OPC – On the Afterlife of the Racial Trauma of Slavery: Limit Consent, Traumatophilia, and Degrees of Psychic Freedom w/ Avgi Saketopoulou (Jan 29, 2022)

OFJ – Archetypal Cosmology: A New Mythic Perspective w/ Keiron Le Grice (Jan. 14, 2022)

OFJ – The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds w/ Susan E. Schwartz (Nov. 12, 2021)

OFJ – Another Whom We Do Not Know: Dreams as the Voice of the Inner Companion w/ Lisa Marchiano (Oct 15, 2021)

Person-Centered Tech – HIPAA Security Compliance in Mental Health (Sept 27, 2021)

Person-Centered Tech – Privacy Ethics & HIPAA Fundamentals for Mental Health Professionals in the Agency or Group Practice Context (Sept 27, 2021)

Studies in Somatic Psychology – Somatic Psychotherapy Training and Case Consultation Group w/ Daniel Schiff (Twice monthly, October 2021-May 2022)

OFJ – Towards a 21st Century Model of Psyche: Altered States, Oracles, & Intelligences w/ Joseph Cambray (Sept 18, 2021)

OPC – Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy w/ Michael Weiner, Zach Wendell & Duane Dale (Monthly, Sept 2021—June 2022)

RLI — Trauma Work in Couples Therapy: Using the Relationship as a Crucible of Healing w/ Terry Real (May 25, 2021)

OPC — From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories w/ Jack Drescher (May 8, 2021)

OPC — A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity: An Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspective w/ Jack Drescher (May 8, 2021)

OPC — Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients w/ Jack Drescher (May 8, 2021)

Pacifica Grad. Institute — Environmental Trauma: Healing Our Split w/ Nature w/ Jeffrey Kiehl (May 6, 12, 20, 2021)

OFJ — The Dynamic Psyche Seminar w/ Dunbar Carpenter & Robert Stuckey (May 2, 9, 16, 30, Jun. 6, 13, 2021)

OFJ — The Self in Jung’s Ultimate View: The Mythology of Numbers in Dreams w/ Gary Sparks (Apr. 16, 2021)

Academy of Therapy Wisdom — Us Consciousness: How Boundary Work Leads to Greater Connection w/ Jules Shore & Terry Real (Apr. 6, 2021)

The Hidden Effects of Trauma in Relationships w/ Thomas Hübl & Terry Real online masterclass (Mar. 20, 2021)

OFJ — Missing the Mark: The Seven Deadly Sins Viewed Through the Lens of Depth Psych. w/ James Hollis (Mar. 19, 2021)

CIIS — Cosmic Health w/ Jennifer Racioppi & Rebekah Borucki (Feb. 24, 2021)

Pacifica Grad. Institute — Our Collective Shadow: Racism, Trauma, and Privilege w/ Fanny Brewster (Feb. 4, 11, & 25, 2021)

Terry Patten’s Spiritual Friends Amidst Cultural Madness: The Power of Our Grateful Generosity (Feb. 3, 2012)

OPC Clinical Moments w/ Elizabeth Schmick & Constance Jackson (Jan. 15, 2021)

OFJ — Living Symbols of the Tarot: A Journey through Archetypal Patterns of Soul w/ Maria Ellen Chiaia (Dec. 4, 2020)

Healing Collective Trauma with Terry Real & Thomas Hübl (Dec. 1, 2020)

MHTCC’s Pandemia—Restoring the Wounded Soul: Latino Reflections on Loss, Grief, & Rituals (Nov. 20, 2020)

PWI — Leading & Following Facilitator's Experience as an Invitation to Awareness w/ Aleksandr Peikrishvili (Nov. 19, 2020)

Reiki I with Reiki Master Liz Bailey (Nov. 8, 2020)

OFJ — We Think with our Hearts: Reading Jung through Native Eyes w/ Jeanne Lacourt (Nov. 6, 2020)

NASW-NYS Revolutionize SW: Education Town Hall (Oct. 20, 2020)

Thomas Hübl’s The Emerging Field of Collective Trauma Work (Oct. 18, 2020)

OFJ — Individuation Hijacked: Persona & Hero in an Evolving Universe w/ Gary Trosclair (Oct. 16, 2020)

Collective Trauma Summit 2020 Online Conference (Sept. 22–Oct. 1, 2020)

Indiana U. SSW online training: Telehealth Basics for SW Educators & Clinicians responding to COVID-19 (Oct. 2, 2020)

Pacifica Grad. Institute — The Intersection of Collective vs. Personal Trauma in the Coronavirus Pandemic w/ Donald Kalsched (July 24, 2020)

Abolition 101 for Social Work Students w/ Stephanie Waller & Sam Harrell (June 23, 2020)

Danya Institute’s Evidence-Based Early Psychosis Identification and Treatment (June 23, 2020)

Pacifica Grad. Institute conference: Magic from the Margins: Witches, Women, & Emerging Ecologies of Psyche (June 20, 2020)

MHTTC Network’s Clinical Innovations in Telehealth: Treatment of PTSD in the Context of COVID-19 (June 9, 2020)

MHTTC Network’s Barriers in M. H. Services for Trans, Queer & Non-binary Latinx Communities (June 8, 2020)

Motivo’s Panel Discussion of Racial Trauma in America: A Webinar for Mental Health Professionals (June 4, 2020)

National Council on Behavioral Health’s Webinar: SBIRT Using Principles of Motivational Interviewing (Apr. 30, 2020)

CALCASA + Prevent Connect: Key Concepts, Models, & Frameworks w/in Sexual & DV Prevention (Apr. 2, 2020)

Family Violence Coordinating Council: Supporting Survivors Navigating Family Court (Feb. 18, 2020)

API-GBV — New Public Charge Policy Updates: Their Impact on Immigrant Survivors of DV/SA (Feb. 6, 2020)

OR Sexual Assault Task Force 40-hour campus-based advocacy online training program (Completed Jan. 2020)

Alliance for Immigrant Survivors: Ensuring Access to Services for Immigrant Survivors of DV & SA (Nov. 2019)

Decolonizing Domestic Violence Work and Community Healing with YWCA of Greater Portland (Oct. 24, 2019)

OR SATF Sustainability & Support: The Institution’s Role in Supporting Healthy Campus Communities (Oct., 2019)

Professionalization, Awards, & Service

Oregon Psychoanalytic Center Beyond Fundamentals Diversity Scholar, 2023-2024

Oregon Psychoanalytic Center Fundamentals Diversity Scholar, 2021-2022

Clinical Social Work & Mental Health Endowed Scholarship, PSU, Fall 2020-Spring 2021

PSU Commission on the Status of Women Graduate Essay Contest Winner, June 2020

Manuscript peer-reviewer for Afflia: Journal of Women and Social Work

Maybelle Clark Macdonald Endowed School of Social Work Scholarship, PSU, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Faculty Advisor, Gender Justice League, PNCA, Fall 2014

Manuscript peer-reviewer for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Manuscript peer-reviewer for Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines

Co-Organizer “Deploying Feminisms and Disciplinary Engagements” panel at National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, November 2011

Organizer, weekly Feminist Dinner Table and discussion group, Knox College, Spring 2011

Faculty participant, Knox College Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention, 2010-2011

Organizer, “‘Bad’ Women who do Good Things”: Queering Feminist Ideas of the ‘Good,” paper session presented at National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Denver, November 2010

Organizer, “Feminist Approaches to Violence and Vulnerability,” paper session presented at National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, November, 2009

Participant, Student Grant Writing Workshop, November 9, 2009, Emory University.

Participant, Transnational Feminist Theory Reading Group, Summer 2009, Emory University

Co-Organizer, 2nd Annual Feminist Theorizing Lecture and Seminar, “Towards a Feminist Theory of Judgment” given by Dr. Linda Zerilli. Emory University. October, 2008

Participant, Feminist Political Theory Reading Group, Summer 2008, Emory University

Participant, Queer Theory Reading Group, Summer 2007, Emory University

Emory University Laney Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2011

University of Arizona Graduate Tuition Waiver Scholarship, 2003-2005

Knox College Ellen Brownings Scripps Merit Scholarship, 1999-2002