Awards & Publications

2017 Artist in Residence – Mendocino Art Center
2016 Outstanding School and Agency Award, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. For development of “Healthy Aging” Concentration, MA in Clinical Psychology Program, Antioch University Santa Barbara
2013 Award for Excellence in Community Education, National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter.
2012 Intergeneration Program of the Year, AARP and Central Coast Commission for Seniors
Kovod Award for Excellence in Media, Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies, 2006
Administrator of the Year, NASW Santa Barbara Chapter, 2003

Psychedelic-supportive psychotherapy: A Psychotherapeutic model for before and beyond the medicine experience

Giving up Your Power: What Does it Mean in Relationship? Common Ground Magazine, San Francisco:CA.February 2015. (http://www.sopdigitaledition.com/commonground/#/18/).
Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Richness Past Midlife, Common Ground Magazine, San Francisco:CA.December 2014. (http://www.sopdigitaledition.com/commonground/#/18/).
In the Aftermath. in Stay Awhile: Poetic Narratives about Multiculturalism and Diversity, University Professors Press, Winter 2015
“Ethical Dilemmas Related To Fee Issues In Social Work Practice.” Focus, February 1998.
“Practicing Poetically: A Client-Centered Multi-Theoretical Response to Trauma.” International Social Work Conference (March 1998), New York University School of Social Work and the Tavistock Clinic of London. Publication December 1998.
“The Fee In Social Work: Ethical Dilemmas For Practitioners.” Social Work, May 1999.
“Holocaust Survivors and Gang Members: An Encounter Transforming Participants’ Attitudes Towards Vengeance and Forgiveness.” Forgiveness: Boundaries and Paradoxes in Philosophy, Culture, and Psychology, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Spring 2013.
“Stepping Towards Darkness: The Enlightened Path to Healthy Aging.” ImagiNews, March 2012.

Psychedelic-supportive psychotherapy: A Psychotherapeutic model for before and beyond the medicine experience

Giving up Your Power: What Does it Mean in Relationship? Common Ground Magazine, San Francisco:CA.February 2015. (http://www.sopdigitaledition.com/commonground/#/18/).
Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Richness Past Midlife, Common Ground Magazine, San Francisco:CA.December 2014. (http://www.sopdigitaledition.com/commonground/#/18/).
A Therapist’s Post-Holiday Season Perspective.” Allthingshealing.com, January 2012
“Healthy Aging, Contradiction or Reality? Noozhawk, Allthingshealing.com, February 2012
“The Secrets of Healthy Aging” Santa Barbara Therapy News, March 2012
“Aging as a Muse.” Noozhawk, March 2012.
“Paradise Lost/Paradise Found.” independent.com/news/2014/jun/05/paradise-lostparadise-found, June 2014