Curriculum Vitae

July 2004 to present – therapist
Private Practice; Escondido, CA. Focusing on Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders in children, adolescents and adults

February 2004 to July 2004 – program specialist
New Haven Youth and Family Services; Vista, CA. Residential treatment center for troubled adolescents

March 2003 to May 2004 – foster parent
Trinity Children and Family Services; San Diego, CA. Foster care agency for difficult to place children

February 2001 to October 2003 – therapist
Vista Hill Learning Assistance Center; Escondido, CA. Provider for Escondido School District mental health services/Special Ed. Regular Ed.

October 2000 to February 2001 – therapist
Interfaith Community Services Annex; Escondido, CA. Family, couple, child and individual counseling center

October 1997 to October 2000 - therapist
New Resolve; Escondido, CA. Vietnam Veterans of San Diego and Interfaith Community Services homeless transitional housing program with recovery focus

Trinity College of Graduate Studies, Anaheim, CA
MA Counseling Psychology, 1999

Ambassador University, Pasadena, CA
BA Liberal Arts, 1983

Hypochondriasis: When OCD Poses as Intense Health Anxiety, July 2007
Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Ph.D., Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; OCF Conference

Imagined Ugliness: CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder, July 2007
Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; OCF Conference

Innovations in CBT for Treatment-Resistant OCD and BDD, July 2007
James M. Claiborn, Ph.D., Private Practice, S. Portland, ME; OCF Conference

Tic Doc: Essentials For Therapists Who Treat Tic Disorders, July 2007
Charles S. Mansueto, Ph.D., Bx Therapy Ctr. of Greater Wash., Silver Springs, MD: OCF

Mindfulness Based Behavior Therapy for OCD, July 2007
Eda Gorbis, Ph.D. Westwood Institute for Anxiety Disorders, L.A., CA
Christine Molnar, Ph.D. Mindful Exposure Therapy Anxiety Ctr., Abington, PA; OCF Conf.

Chromatic Drawings In Imaginal Exposure for Harm & Sexual Obsessions, July 2007
John Hart, LCPC, The Menninger Clinic, Houston, TX; OCF Conference

The Worry Hill Treatment Protocol for OCD In Children and Adolescents &
Bad Thoughts, Scrupulosity, "Just Right," Perfectionism and Hoarding: CBT for Children and Adolescents, July 2007
Aureen Wagner, Ph.D., Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY; OCF Conf.

Special Issues in the Treatment of Scrupulosity: Workshop For Clinicians, July 2007
C. Alec Pollard, Ph.D.; St. Louis Bx Medicine Inst., St. Louis, MO; OCF Conference

UhOh-Your Slip is Showing:Why You Will Relapse & What to Do About It, July 2007
Jonathan B. Grayson, Ph.D., Anxiety & Agoraphobia Tx Ctr., Bala Cynwyd, PA; OCF  Conf.

Healthy Addictions, April 2007
Joe D. Miller, Ph.D., Escondido, CA

Parenting With Love & Limits: How to Train Parents of Defiant Children & Teens, November 2005
Scott P. Sells, Ph.D., San Diego

Treating Difficult and Unusual Cases of OCD, July 2005
Bruce Mansbridge,Ph.D. Austin Center for Treatment of OCD; OCF Conference

OCD and Eating Disorders, July 2005
Bradley C. Riemann, Ph.D. Rogers Memorial Hospital; OCF Conference

Impact of Comorbid Conditions on the Treatment of Children with OCD, July 2005
Daniel A. Geller, MD; Harvard Medical School; OCF Conference

Sexual Obsessions and Sexual Impulses: The Relationship of OCD to Impulse Control Disorders, July 2005
Jon Grant, JD, MD Univ. Minn. Med. School; Mathew Gunnip, Butler Hosp. OCF Conference

Advanced Exposure and Response Prevention, July 2005
Gerald Tarlow, Ph.D. UCLA OCD Treatment Center; OCF Conference

Treatment of OCD Spectrum Disorders: Body Dysmorphic Disorder; Tourette Disorder; Hypochondriasis; Hoarding; Inter-cranial Infectious Disorders, July 2005
Khemlani-Patel, Ph.D.; S. Wilhelm, Ph.D. Massachusetts Gral Hosp.; J. Abramowitz, Ph.D.; J. Bubrick, Ph.D.; M.E.Mulligan, MA Bio-Behavioral Inst. OCF Conference

Ten Steps for Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder, July 2005
J.Feusner, MD UCLA Neuropsychiatric Inst.; S. Granet, LCSW, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Sony Khemlani-Patel, Ph.D. Bio-Behavioral Inst; Arie Winograd, MFT, UCLA OCD Intensive Treatment Program; OCF Conference

Fear & Courage During Psych. Treatment of OCD, July 2005
Jack Rachman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia; OCF Conference

Treating Health Anxiety, July 2005
Emanuel Maidenberg, Ph.D. UCLA School of Medicine; OCF Conference

Coping with a Treatment Resistant Hoarder July 2005
Jerome Bubrick, Ph.D. The Bio-Behavioral Institute; OCF Conference

Issues in the Management and Treatment of OCD and OC Spectrum Disorders in Adults and Children, July 2005
J. Abramowitz, Ph.D. The Mayo Clinic; C. Carmen, Ph.D. UI Chicago; M. Franklin, Ph.D. Univ. Penna.; R. Frost, Ph.D. Smith College; Gail Steketee, Ph.D. Boston Univ.; OCF Conference

How to Help the Angry & Defiant Child, August 2004
B. Bryan Post, Ph.D. LCSW

Alcohol, Drugs and the Judicial System, April 2004
Mental Health Systems, Inc.

Project Keep (16-week parenting course), August through November 2003
County of San Diego Health & Human Services, and the Child & Adolescent Services Research Center, and the Oregon Social Learning Center

Western Regional Trauma Conference, November 2000 FACES

Working with Children with Learning Disabilities, November 2001
North Inland Special Education Region – Carol A. Bartz. Ed.D.

Pathways to Healing, February 1998
Ernest Rossi, Ph.D.

Icebergs of Recovery, Relapse Prevention, September 1998
Terence Gorski and Claudia Black