My Story.
1978. Born to Jewish atheists and raised in Boulder, Colorado.
Totally clueless, numb, unaware of myself.
Go through the motions of life. Over-achieve.
2000. Blindly follow the path and become television producer.
Feel like a fraud, phony. Know something is missing inside, but no idea how to figure that out.
Try therapy. Get nothing out of it.
Assume my life will always be this way.
2007. 30 approaches. What am I doing? Who am I?? Find my way to Esalen. The stirring of awakening.
Photo by Eva Napp
2008. Leave my career in LA and move to Sonoma to attend graduate school in Counseling Psychology.
Feel an immediate and deep sense of rightness.
Marriage + divorce. Love, loss, grief, huge period of growth.
2012. Receive Somatic Experiencing. My chronic stomach aches cease as I begin to feel my emotions.
2013. Discover Buddhism and meditation and it's a total game changer. I start to loosen the grips of control and am rewarded with peace & freedom.
Live like a monk for almost two years - no alcohol, weed, social media, makeup, dating, sex, toxic friends. I meditate, I volunteer. I learn to be alone and detach from the life I thought I’d have.
Happy.
2016. Find EMDR. Wow, who knew how much my subconscious was affecting my daily life? And how quickly I can have major life epiphanies that actually last?
2017. Spirituality deepens. Meaning, purpose, integrity, astrology, energy, chakras, intuition, past lives, inner child, law of attraction, kundalini, Chinese Medicine, acupuncture …
2018. Bring it all together. Open Flow House - a home for an amazing team of psychotherapists. Holistic approach to mental health using all of these ideas with body/mind/spirit techniques. Check us out to speak with me and get matched with one of our wonderful therapists!
2019-2020. “Manifested” the partner I said I wanted (listen here for tips) and now trying to figure out how to have a healthy, secure, available relationship.
2021. Boom. Pregnant at 44! 😳
2022. Motherhood. Partnership. Humility. Interdependence. Intimacy. Accountability. Re-Prioritization.
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1954. MOMA.
Professional Trainings & Teachers:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Part 1
Esther Perel : Relationship / Sexuality
Tara Brach: Buddhism
Jack Kornfield: Buddhism
Kathy Kain: Somatic Practice
Caroline Myss: The Energy Body
Lara Elliott: Reiki Level One Training
Sue Johnson : Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Katherine Woodward Thomas: Relationship
Terry Real : Relationship / Inner Child
Rick Hanson: Neuroscience & Buddhism
Judith Orloff: Empaths & the Highly Sensitive
Marie Manuchehri : Energy & Intuition
Jill Willard : Energy Intuitive
Liz Greene & Jan Spiller: Psychological Astrology
Pat Ogden: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Stephan Pende: Buddhism
I attend Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society (sadly, now closed).
I served as Associate Producer of HBO's Golden-Globe winning psychotherapy show, "In Treatment" and EMDR consultant on Showtime's psychological drama series, "The Affair."
Not ready to start therapy but want to start diving in on your own? Here are my favorite books and podcasts on personal growth, relationships & spirituality to get you started!