Prior to my career in psychology, psychotherapy, and mental health, I worked as a teacher, in both private and public schools, at both Elementary and Middle School levels. I taught in New York City, Milwaukee, and Sausalito.

Over time, I took a greater interest in the role that family life played in the academic and social adjustment that children experienced in their classroom and peer groups. This led to my professional interests in the fields of child development and clinical psychology.

In the late ‘70s, I found an outlet for these interests, as I began working with chronically mentally ill patients as a counselor, clinical supervisor, and program director at San Francisco Community Mental Health.

As my interests in clinical work developed, I naturally pivoted to private practice.

Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, and Family Therapy have been the cornerstones of my private psychotherapy practice since 1980, which I have maintained in San Francisco and Marin as a Marriage Family Therapist with an M.A. and a Ph.D. in psychology.