 I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California (#44053). I have rich clinical and life experience and have worked with couples, adolescents, and families since 2001. I began my practicum training as a clinical intern at YMCA Youth and Family Services in San Diego. For five years, I received stellar training in a model of therapy known as Bowen Family Systems Therapy. Since then, I have also taught graduate and undergraduate classes in marriage and family therapy at Alliant International University in San Diego. Alliant International University is a COAMFTE accredited school, the highest accreditation a school can receive in training MFT graduate students. I have taught classes such as spiritual and developmental aspects of aging, parent child therapy, MFT techniques, and MFT theories. Additionally, I have recently completed a manuscript detailing a family systems treatment for the impaired physician and his/her family. This manuscript will be a chapter in an updated textbook on special populations suffering from alcoholism and addiction. This book has already used in many training programs for graduate students. I became fully licensed in 2006 and am now in private practice in the heart of the Mission Valley area of San Diego. I grew up in a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I am the proud mother of two wonderful daughters. I received my bachelor's degree in English from California State University Northridge in 1970. For several years, I taught English and journalism at the junior high school and high school levels. After raising my family and launching them, I returned to graduate school in 2001. At the respective ages of 57 and 59, I earned my masters and doctoral degrees in marital and family therapy from the COAMFTE-accredited program at Alliant International University. |
