About Me
Psychotherapy is a second career for me, and I believe I’ve needed to live ‘long and humbly’ to appreciate fully that which I am offering to others. My BA is from Goddard College in 1976. I graduated with an MSW from the University of New England in 1995 and kept up a small counseling practice at the New England Family Institute in Portland, Maine, while doing crisis work for Counseling Services, Inc, and then in the Emergency Department at Maine Medical Center. I consider those years as my time in the trenches: very informative and a strenuous prequel to the pleasure of full immersion in psychotherapeutic work.
While maintaining my private practice, I also worked for two years providing adult psychotherapy on an out-patient team for the Department of Psychiatry at Maine Medical Center. In 2017 I moved across country to the Kitsap Peninsula, and now practice in Poulsbo, Washington. Aside from my work, I am a dedicated reader and writer, grandmother and nature-buff, artist and meditator. I use mindfulness and awareness practices for my own development and to enhance my clinical life. For those who are anxious (and who isn’t about something?) you can read more about my book, Anxiety Soothers, under Anxiety Soothers at this web site.
While maintaining my private practice, I also worked for two years providing adult psychotherapy on an out-patient team for the Department of Psychiatry at Maine Medical Center. In 2017 I moved across country to the Kitsap Peninsula, and now practice in Poulsbo, Washington. Aside from my work, I am a dedicated reader and writer, grandmother and nature-buff, artist and meditator. I use mindfulness and awareness practices for my own development and to enhance my clinical life. For those who are anxious (and who isn’t about something?) you can read more about my book, Anxiety Soothers, under Anxiety Soothers at this web site.