CV
For those interested, some of my more conventional achievements & affiliations
Tested as gifted, 3rd grade (1980)
Worked as an investigative journalist while still in high school (1988-1991)
MENSA scholarship based on SAT score (1991)
Occidental College, BA History including year abroad studying Histoire des mentalités at University of Sussex (1991-1995)
Account executive at various San Francisco tech start-ups including Salesforce (1999-2001)
BDSM Blogger, Performance Artist, Professional Dominant (2002-2010)
Doctorate PsyD in Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University (2010-2014)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, San Francisco Department of Public Health (2014-2015)
Licensure and Private Practice (2015-Present)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Journal: Prompts and Techniques to Practice Acceptance While Building the Life You Want (Callisto, 2022)
Adrift in Adulting: My College Coming-of-Age in 1990s LA (Burning Question Press, 2024)
Professional Trainings:
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Boot Camp with ACT founder Steven Hayes
Trance Camp and Clinical Supervisions with Stephen Gilligan, protégée of Milton Erickson, “Father of Modern Clinical Hypnosis”
Module I and II of Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing
Neuropsychology including neuropsychological assessment batteries
Events and Associations:
Futurist Salons and Accelerating Change conferences, early 2000s
Burning Man 1996, 1999 (performed in Pepe Ozan’s Playa Opera, “Le Nystere de Papa Loko”), 2002, 2007, 2011, 2014
Psychedelic Science MAPS conferences 2010 (volunteer staff) and 2013
International Association for the Study of Dreams conference 2014
Final Erickson Congress 2019
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science conferences 2012 and 2022