Here are selected trainings and workshops that I have taken:

General:

• Crisis intervention: assessing risk and safety planning (2012)
• Treatment relationship: building a therapeutic alliance (2013)
• Multicultural awareness (2013)
• Mood disorders & treatment approaches (2014)
• Anxiety Disorders & treatment (2014)
  
• Mental Health Medications (2014)
• Child protective services (2015)
• Time limited psychodynamic therapy (2014)
• Use of dreams in therapy (2011)
• Relationship between stress and eating (2012)
• Eating disorder treatment using drama therapy (2012)
• Cognitive decline following trauma (2013)
• Law and ethics for California therapists (every 2 years)
  
• HIV/AIDS and risk reduction counseling (2014)
• Intervention/Management of Assaultive Behavior (2014)
• Necessary Illusions: Working with Narcissistic Vulnerabilities (2014)
• Person-centered Practices (2015)
• Mindfulness-based stress reduction (2013)
• Chronic pain syndrome (2013)
• Conflict resolution and mediation (2014)
• Integrative Treatment of Trauma, Pain, Mood, and Addiction (2016)
• Motivating Change (2016)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (2016)
• Borderline Personality Disorder (2018)
• Mental Health Medications (2018)
• Suicide: assessment, treatment, and management (2022)
• The Somatic Approach to Healing (2022)
• Integrative Care - Bridging the Gap Between Holistic Healthcare Services & Traditional Psychology Practices (2023)
• Ethics and Telehealth for California Mental Health Providers (2023)

EMDR & Trauma

• Fostering Resilience in Patients and Families After Trauma (2014)
• EMDR Parts 1 & 2 training (40 hours) (2019)
• 20+ hours of group consultation with Philip Manfield, PhD (2020-2021)
• 17 hours of individual consultation with Kevin Rowland, LCSW (2021)
• 20+ hours of individual consultation with Holly Forman-Patel, MFT (ongoing)
• Flash Technique (6 hours) & Advanced Flash (6 hours) (2020-2022)
• Developments in the Flash Technique: An Advance in EMDR Processing (2021)
• EMDR clinician common errors (2022)
• Somatic Approach to Healing (2022)
• Resourcing for dissociation as focus of treatment (2023)
• Treating religious & spiritual trauma with EMDR (2023)
• The I-Gaze Interweave for Attachment Repair in EMDR Therapy (2023)
• EMDR Therapy: A Comprehensive Trauma-Focused Solution to Treat Addiction (2024)
• Applying EMDR for Acute Addiction and Complex Trauma in Women (2024)

Special Populations:

• The Passion Paradox: Helping Couples Celebrate Differences (2014)
• Difficult to Treat Dual Diagnosis Patients (2014)
• Understanding the health needs of LGBT people (2018)
• Clinical issues with bisexual and transgendered adults and adolescents (2018)
• Veterans issues & treatments by SAMHSA and VA DoD (2018)
• Care for military members and their families (2018)

Addiction & Recovery:

• Stages of change and relapse prevention (2010)
• Drugs and their effects (2010)
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and addictions (2010)
• Working with adolescents with chemical dependency issues (2011)
• Addiction and psychopharmacology (2011)
• Methamphetamine use in the gay community (2011)
• Compulsive Shopping (2011)
• Domestic violence and substance abuse (2012)
• Motivational interviewing (2012)
• Seeking safety: working with trauma and substance abuse (2012)
• Recovery and the family (2010)
• Nutrition and recovery (2011)
• Compulsive shopping (2011)
• Treating codependency (2012)
• Developmental model of recovery (2012)
• Impulse control disorders (2013)
• Sex addiction and couples recovery (2013)
• Pain management and addiction (2013)
• Internet addiction in recovery: gaming, gambling, and cybersex (2013)
• The Hungry Ghost: Combining Science & Compassion in the Treatment of Addiction (2014)
• Drug cultures & the culture of recovery (2018)
• Alcohol problems & treatment (2018)
• DBT for Substance Abusers (2018)
• Comorbidity of addiction and other mental illness (2018)
• Medications for opioid use disorder (2018)
• Buprenorphine-Naloxone (2018)
• Tobacco Use Disorder & Smoking Cessation (2018)
• Individualized Approach to Opiod Use Disorder (2019)
• Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy (2024)