Clinical Training

September 1, 2026, marked the completion of a two-year, private practice postdoctoral fellowship with the Portage Bay Clinic (PBC). At PBC, I received weekly individual and group supervision with Dr. Jeff Grant, a fully licensed clinical psychologist in WA State, and attended a weekly online case consultation group with PBC clinicians. When I began, I saw adults and adolescents in my practice. As I grew more comfortable offering individual depth-oriented psychotherapy with an older patient demographic, I opened my private practice to include individual child psychotherapy patients, couples counseling, and family therapy. I am grateful for all that I gained and learned during this phase of training, and I now practice independently under a new supervision arrangement.

My predoctoral internship was at the Outpatient Counseling Clinic at Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services, a federally funded community mental health agency in Los Angeles serving a chronically underserved population. Vista Del Mar integrates psychodynamic and psychoanalytic work with more standard evidence-based approaches. I provided individual therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults. As part of the agency's dynamic treatment model, each child's individual therapy was paired with weekly "collateral" sessions with parents and caregivers (without child or adolescent patients present) to increase mutual understanding, foster more self-reflective parenting, and support caregivers, co-parents, or guardians along with the child's primary treatment to improve family dynamics.

Before that, I spent two years at Fairfax Behavioral Health in Kirkland, working with adults and adolescents in partial hospitalization programs. In my second year, I trained in psychological assessment through a weekly case consultation seminar led by a licensed clinical psychologist and the hospital's clinical director. There, alongside the full-time psychology interns, I focused on using projective measures (the Rorschach, the TAT, and the House-Tree-Person) to support differential diagnosis and inform treatment planning, with practical attention to the short-term treatment frame of both inpatient and partial hospitalization programs. My work with the MMPI extended that training as an area of independent academic interest. That same year, I co-led two to three therapy groups a week with inpatient adolescents.