Education & Experience

I earned my MA in Counseling from Sonoma State University and my BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After spending nearly two years working in clinical settings during and following graduate school, I stepped away from the field for almost a decade to serve as a law enforcement officer.

This experience profoundly shapes my clinical work today, particularly with first responders navigating work-related trauma and chronic stress. My approach is not only trauma-informed through my training in EMDR, but also deeply grounded in real-world experience—from years of crisis response as a Deputy Sheriff to my later work as a clinician in a correctional setting, pre-private practice.