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For clinicians

For the therapists doing this work alongside me.

Whether you are a clinician building a grief- or trauma-focused practice, an EMDR therapist looking for case consultation, or a colleague navigating the business side of private practice — I work with therapists on all of it.

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Book a 1:1 consult

One-on-one clinical or business consultation. For complex cases, building a grief-informed practice, EMDR case consultation, or thinking through your next professional move.

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Continuing Education

The Equine-Assisted Learning Level 1 course — 8 NBCC CE hours. Live training with Angela at Shakti Ranch in Malibu (or online), for clinicians who want to integrate equine and somatic work.

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Clinical library

The books and tools I most often recommend to other therapists working with grief, trauma, attachment, and the body. Curated, not exhaustive.

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1:1 clinical & business consultation

For complex cases, EMDR consult, or building your kind of practice.

I work with therapists at every stage — newly licensed clinicians figuring out their first specialty, mid-career therapists pivoting toward grief or trauma work, and seasoned colleagues sorting through cases that need another set of eyes.

What we might work on together.

Sessions are tailored to what you bring. Common reasons therapists book a consult with me:

  • Complex grief, trauma, or attachment cases — when the standard frameworks are not quite landing
  • EMDR case consultation — for clinicians integrating EMDR into grief or attachment work
  • Mother Hunger® framework consultation — for therapists working with clients carrying mother wounds
  • Building a grief-focused private practice — niching, marketing, pricing, and the business side
  • Equine and somatic integration — bringing body-based work into a talk-therapy practice
  • Transitions in your career — group practice to solo, online to in-person, opening or closing a focus

You do not need to have it all figured out before you book. Often the most useful sessions are the ones where we name what is actually in the way.

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For current rates & availability

Sessions are 50 minutes, virtual, scheduled directly with me. Single sessions and ongoing consultation packages available.

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Clinical library

What I’m sending therapists to read, right now.

The books I most often recommend to other clinicians who want to deepen their grief, trauma, and attachment work. Curated for therapists specifically — different from my client-facing book list.

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Grief & bereavement

Therese Rando, PhD

Treatment of Complicated Mourning

The clinical bible on complicated grief. Dense, thorough, and the book I still return to when a case is not unfolding the way I expected.

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Joanne Cacciatore, PhD

Bearing the Unbearable

Cacciatore is a grief researcher and bereaved mother. Her clinical writing on traumatic loss has shaped how I sit with my hardest cases.

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J. William Worden, PhD

Grief Counseling & Grief Therapy

The clinical handbook generations of grief therapists have been trained on. Worden’s Tasks of Mourning remain core curriculum for good reason.

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Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD

The Grieving Brain

The neuroscience of grief in plain English. Useful for psychoeducation and for explaining to a client why their brain is doing what it is doing.

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Trauma & somatic work

Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The Body Keeps the Score

If you do not have this on your shelf yet, this is your sign. Foundational reading for any clinician working with trauma.

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Peter Levine, PhD

Waking the Tiger

Levine’s Somatic Experiencing in book form. The introduction to thinking of trauma as a body event, not just a mind event.

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Pat Ogden, PhD

Trauma and the Body

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in clinical depth. For therapists ready to integrate body-based interventions into talk work.

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Francine Shapiro, PhD

Getting Past Your Past

EMDR’s creator wrote this for clinicians who want to think in EMDR’s adaptive information processing model. Accessible, deeply useful.

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Attachment & mother work

Amir Levine, MD & Rachel Heller

Attached

The accessible attachment-style book I most often recommend to clients between sessions. Useful as therapist psychoeducation too.

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Kelly McDaniel

Mother Hunger®

Kelly’s framework — nurturance, protection, guidance — is the most useful conceptual map I have for working with daughters carrying mother wounds. Mother Hunger® is a registered trademark of Kelly McDaniel.

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Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

A clinical psychologist writing for adult children of parents who could not show up. I keep extra copies in my office.

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Lewis, Amini & Lannon

A General Theory of Love

Three psychiatrists on the neurobiology of attachment, written like good literature. The most beautiful book ever written on limbic regulation.

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For the business of being a therapist

Melvin Varghese, PhD

Selling the Couch (Resources from)

Mel’s body of work — books, podcast, courses — for therapists building beyond traditional 1:1 practice. A trusted starting point.

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Joe Sanok, MA

Private Practice Survival Guide

Practical, no-nonsense business writing for clinicians who want to actually run a practice, not just see clients.

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Lynn Grodzki, LCSW

Building Your Ideal Private Practice

A senior clinician and business coach writing specifically for therapists. The clearest book on niching and pricing I have read.

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Lori Gottlieb, LMFT

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A therapist’s memoir of her own therapy and her practice. Read it for the reminder of why we do this.

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