As foundress of Four Seasons Sisterhood, I seek to encounter the essence of those women who are called to gather in community through the conscious conversation we call psychotherapy and the engagement of non-ordinary consciousness through dreamwork, active imagination, prayer, art, music and ritual.

Training
I received my masters degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute where my training in mythology, archetypes, and depth psychology benefited from the wisdom of its supporters and founders including Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, James Hillman, and Thomas Moore.

I am also honored to hold a certificate from the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles and The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology established by psychedelic pioneers Robert Frager and James Fadiman. I've been trained by Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) to offer ketamine assisted psychotherapy.

Orientation
I consider myself to be situated at the crossroads of four schools of psychotherapy: depth, transpersonal, feminist and ecopsychological. These approaches have lead me to believe human suffering constellates in predictable patterns we’ve come to call diagnoses and all express an unmet want or need that is often buried in the psyche (soul) and soma (body).

These unconscious longings reveal themselves in our language, dreams, movements and images but also through unwanted symptoms. Part of the task of therapy is unearthing these hidden yearnings and discovering ways to integrate, meet, or grieve these subconscious longings in a whole-some way.

Symptoms As Expression
Many significant events in people's lives that lead to symptoms happened before they had words or were so traumatic and wounding, they couldn't be captured in language which would be too limiting. Most of the people I work with come to realize they have been expressing themselves through eating disorders, addictions, and compulsive behaviors until psychotherapy gave them a new way to talk about, tolerate, or transform their experience.

Creativity and Culture
With these limitations of oral and written language in mind, I was trained and received a certificate through The Sky Mountain Institute in Expressive Arts Therapy and Ecopsychology which focuses on what creativity and creation have to teach us about ourselves and reality.

I spent two years at Boston University studying anthropology which lends an awareness of our evolution as animals when considering sex, gender, and culture.

My most foundational training in caring for the soul was through music and I have a bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music where my principal instrument was the human voice alongside piano.

The Ancestral and Transpersonal

Two of the most important questions explored in therapy is where we are going and from where we have come. My foremothers are from Ireland and I have ancestral connection to Sicily and the many places in Eastern Europe that received my paternal Jewish ancestors as refugees.

I have practiced yoga for 25 years and am a continuous student of the subtle body described in alternative medicine systems from Ayurveda to Anthroposophy.

I currently attend an Eastern Catholic church with my family with a particular devotion to The Mother in all her manifestations.