2021-2025 Fully Certified in all aspects of the Realization Process with non-dual teacher Judith Blackstone (completion April 2025)

2021-2023 Dharma Ocean Somatic Meditation Training with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dr. Reggie Ray

2022-2023 Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed Therapy Training with founder Dick Schwartz, Toni Herbine-Blank and Pamela Krause

2020-2021 Kairo Astrology, Foundations in Astrology Certification

2019-2020 Robert Moss Advanced Dream Teacher Training, Level I & II

2018-2020 The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Basic and Advanced Trainings

2017-2018 Parnell Institute Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Level I & II

2015-2016 The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), Level I & II

2010-2012 Somatic Experiencing, Professional Training (SE)

2010 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

2009 Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Level I & II

2005 Winner of Forward Magazine’s Book of the Year Award: Jun Q’anil: One Who Walks the Way (Cypress House, 2005).

2001-2010 Unfettered Mind, Buddhist training & development under Buddhist teacher, writer and translator Ken McLeod

1999 A year spent under the tutelage of the Tz'utujil and Kaqchikel people of the Guatemalan Highlands

1994 Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #31542)

1992 Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education and Psychology: M.A. in Clinical Psychology

1989 University of California, Santa Barbara: B.A. in Political Science, Philosophy & Psychology