Portfolio

My experiences and journey to today.

Professional Positions

 

Areas of Interest

 

Family Relations & Communication Skills

  • Family communication styles

  • Family communication facilitation

  • Family violence cycle

  • Family cycle of addiction

 

Parenting

  • Family life stages and individual life stages

Addiction

  • Types

  • Where to find help

  • Systems

  • 12 Steps for Life

  • Life outside the meetings

  • Self care vs. selfishness

 

In the Self-Care Toolbox

  • Journaling

  • Meditation

  • Breath work

Work/Life Balance

  • Finding help with workplace problems

  • How to reach personal goals while supporting employer goals

  • Relationships with work

  • Coaching

 

Personal Gender Issues

  • Women’s issues across generations

  • Men’s issues across generations

  • Gender binary issues

Relationship Issues

  • Personal relationships external to family

  • Keeping social when working from home

  • Social life in retirement

  • Relationship with self & others

 

Grief

  • Death & dying

  • Unrecognized losses

  • It is OK not to be OK

 

Licenses, Credentials, and Certificates

 

Marriage and Family Therapist LMFT27407

Human Resource Management Certification, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA 2001

Alcohol Counseling Certificate, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA 1984

Counseling with the Sexual Addict, Del Amo Hospital 1992

California Community College Instructor Credential 2170QU001

California Community College Counselor Credential 2170QU002

Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) 2008

Certified Hypnotherapist, International Hypnosis Federation 2004