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About Jane

Specialties

  • Complex and developmental trauma/PTSD

  • People with chronic health conditions (e.g., mood disorders such as depression & anxiety, autoimmune disease, TBIs)

  • Personality disorders and those affected by them

  • Difficulty accessing and utilizing emotion

  • Perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout

  • Professional women (esp. healthcare workers, academics, first responders and entrepreneurs)

  • BIPOC

  • Immigrants & children of immigrants

  • Parents

  • Artists

  • Misfits and perennial students

  • Post-TMS or ECT integration

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Advanced Training

  • Somatic Experiencing (trauma-focused modality based on the work of Peter Levine)

  • Contemporary Reichian Therapy through The Somatic Psychotherapy Institute - PNW (a relational and emotionally focused character-based somatic psychotherapy)

Clinical Background

  • Intensive Services: UCSF’s Inpatient, Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient programs

  • Community Mental Health: Westside Community Services (SF) and Richmond Area Multi- Services (SF), Kaiser Permanente (Adult Outpatient Program)

  • Grief and Loss: Sutter VNA & Hospice (SF)

License & Education

  • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #85852

  • MA in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Somatic Psychology, John F. Kennedy University

  • BA in English, U.C. Berkeley