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Education

1998-2004        Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies

1993-1997        B.A., Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

Clinical and Assessment Work Experience

Ongoing           Private Practice in Clinical Supervision/Consultation, Psychological Assessment, Forensic Evaluations, and Litigation Stress Management.  San Francisco and Marin.

Ongoing           Associate, Psychological Trauma Center, Inc., A Division of the Preventive Psychiatry Associates, Medical Group Inc. Conduct psychological testing, historical interviewing, research, document review, and evaluation of psychological damages of litigants.

Ongoing           Independent Psychological Evaluator, Human Services Department, Sonoma County. Provide psychological evaluations of parents and children to court investigators.

2007                 Independent Psychological Evaluator, Accident Injury and Family Therapy, inc.  Provided psychological evaluations for Chiropractors working with physically injured patients.

2006-2007       Testing and Group Psychologist, Boyer House Foundation. Conducted psychological and cognitive assessments for a population of severely disturbed adults and facilitated bi-weekly process groups. Also attended case conferences, team meetings and provided consultation to interns.

2004-2006       Psychological Assistant. Supervised by Elin Sowle, Ph.D. Psychotherapy with adults and couples. San Francisco, CA.

2004-2006       Post-Doctoral Fellow. The Boyer House Foundation. Psychological and cognitive assessment, history interviews, process and writing groups.

2002-2004       Psychological Assistant. Supervised by Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D.
Psychotherapy with adults and couples. San Francisco, CA.

2002-2004       Pre-Doctoral Intern.  Community Institute for Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy with adults and group work with homeless children (ages 5 through 13). San Rafael, CA.

2003-2004       Intake Coordinator. Community Institute for Psychotherapy.
Interviewed potential patients and made patient-therapist matches.

2000-2002       Psychology Trainee. Counseling & Psychological Services Center:
Golden Gate University. Provided psychotherapy to individuals and couples. San Francisco, CA.

1999-2000       Psychology Trainee. Berkeley Creative Living Center, Bonita
House, Inc. Provided individual, group, and milieu psychotherapy to chronically mentally ill adults. Berkeley, CA.

1998-1999       Milieu Therapist. Saint Vincent School for Boys: Catholic Youth
Organization. Provided milieu therapy and co-facilitated process groups for boys (ages 9 through 14). San Rafael, CA.

Teaching/Conference presentations

2008-ongoing   Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Doctoral Program, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).  Teach courses in: Projective and Cognitive Assessment.

2008                 Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Doctoral Program, John F. Kennedy University. Courses in: Psychodynamic Theory.

2008                Guest Lecturer, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, San Rafael.  Co-lead a multi-week training for Ph.D. and MFT graduate interns on Dreams and Dream groups.

2007-ongoing   Individual Supervisor, CIIS Psychological Services Center. Provide weekly, individual supervision to multiple doctoral student trainees.

2005-2007       Adjunct Supervisor, Supervision and Training of psychology interns at the Adolescent Inpatient Unit, Mc Auley Institute, St. Mary’s Medical Center.

2006                Co-Interviewer: NCSPP/PINC ISG Annual Introductory Conference: The Creative Psyche in the Sexed Body with guests: Ken Corbett, Ph.D. & Donna Bassin, Ph.D. Interviewed Drs. Corbett and Bassin and facilitated conversation between Drs. and the audience.

2006                Presenter, American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) 2006 Conference. Presented paper: “Group Psychoanalysis: Roles and Tasks in the work of Wilfred Bion and Antonino Ferro”. Presented with a panel on Psychoanalytic Approaches to Group Treatment of Mentally Ill Patients.

2004                Presenter, NCSPP Scientific Meeting, Student Paper Award Presentation. Presented and discussed my award winning paper: “Hysteria and the Transformation Spectrum.” Paper discussed by Lee Rather, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

Committee Work

2006-ongoing   Chair, Education Committee, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP).  Run a committee that designs, markets, and facilitates psychoanalytic psychology classes and conferences in Northern California.  Involves participation in NCSPP Board Meetings/activities.

2004-2007        Committee Member, Intensive Study Group (ISG), Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP). Worked with a committee of 6-8 psychoanalysts and therapists to design and carry out programs for the annual NCSPP Intro-Event and Year-long Intensive Study Groups in San Francisco and the East Bay.

2002-2004       Committee Member, Associate Members, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP). Speakers’ Bureau organizer. Invited local psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented clinicians to speak at graduate schools in the Bay Area.

Research and Publications

2008                The Key to the Men's Room: What Men Talk About When Women Aren't Around. By Ken Solin with Dr. Amy Bandera.
Wrote advice for women at the end of each chapter. The book details a 15 year men’s group process. 

Spring, 2006    Book Review: Handing Over: Developing Consistency Across Shifts in Residential and Health Settings, by Barry Mason. Fort da: The Journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Regional Affiliate of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association. 

Fall, 2005        “Hysteria and the Transformation Spectrum”, Fort da: The Journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Regional Affiliate of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association. 

2004                 Psy.D. Dissertation: Transformations in Hysteria.

Assessment and Forensics Training/Education

2008                Workshop: Forensic Consultation with the Rorschach. (7 hours) Training by Bruce Smith,  Ph.D. and Barton Evans, Ph.D. New Orleans, LA.  Society for Personality Assessment Annual Meeting.

2008                Workshop: A Role-Based Approach to TAT: Research and Practice. (3.5 hours) Training by Sharon Rae Jenkins, Ph.D. and Antoinette Thomas, Ph.D. New Orleans, LA.  Society for Personality Assessment Annual Meeting.

2008                Workshop: Introduction to Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy (7 hours) Training by Stephen E. Finn, Ph.D. New Orleans, LA.  Society for Personality Assessment Annual Meeting.

2007               Workshop: Advanced Issues in Expert Testimony: Developing and Presenting the Best Evidence (10.5 hours) Training by Stuart A. Greenberg, Ph.D. and Randy K. Otto, Ph.D. Arlington, VA, Society for Personality Assessment Annual Meeting

2007               Workshop: Using the MMPI-A in Forensic Evaluations (3.5 hours) Training by Robert P. Archer, Ph.D. Arlington, VA, Society for Personality Assessment Annual Meeting

2006               Rorschach Training Program: Beginning Program (35 hours) Training by Phillip Erdberg, Ph.D., Barry Ritzler, Ph.D. and Anthony Sciara, Ph.D. San Francisco, CA. Training focused on the fundamentals of administration, scoring and interpretation of the Rorschach test.

Supervision Training

2007              Clinical Supervision for Psychologists (6 hours) Training through psycheu.com; approved by American Psychological Association.

Psychoanalytic Training/Education

2003-2006     Study Group facilitated by Peter Goldberg, Ph.D. & Jed Sekoff, Ph.D,(Training and Supervising Analysts at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California).  Meet weekly to present clinical work and study various psychoanalytic texts.

2004-2005     Study Group facilitated by Enid Young, Ph.D. Met weekly to study Bion, Freud, Meltzer, Klein and other psychoanalytic theorists and give clinical presentations.

2003-2004     Year-Long Intensive Study Group, PINC/NCSPP. Year of intensive study of Freud’s concept of the Death Drive and elaboration of this theme in later psychoanalytic scholarship. Instructors included: Charles Spezzano, Ph.D., Mardy Ireland, Ph.D., Enid Young, Ph.D. and Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D.

2003-2004     Intensive study of Wilfred Bion’s work with Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. 

2002-2004     Study Groups facilitated by Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D. Studied psychoanalytic texts and gave clinical presentations.

Honors & Awards 
Winner of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology 2004 Student Paper Award.

Professional Affiliations

American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychological Association, Division of Forensics (41)
Society for Personality Assessment (SPA)
California Psychological Association (CPA)
Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP)
American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39)