Social Worker/Therapist, Author, Trainer and Consultant

NOTICE: My new book was launched on September 24, 2024: An Introductory Clinical Guide to Dissociative Identity Disorder, published by PESI.

Now available: on PESI; on Amazon; on B & N

I will be presenting a live one-day webinar on PESI on Wednesday April 9, 2025, entitled “Dissociative Identity Disorder: Best Practices for Working with Complex Trauma, Attachment Wounds, and Multiplicity.” link

I presented an hour and a half workshop through An Infinite Mind entitled “Collaborative Healing: Best Practices in Working with Clients with Dissociative Systems.” It is now available for download. The cost is only $10: link

I presented “Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Stabilization and Complex Trauma Treatment in Clients with DID” through PESI on 2/21/2024. The digital version is available here.

“Dissociative Identity Disorder” article published in Encyclopedia of Social Work: link

 

Welcome to my website.

This is my 2020 version of myself and JiJi when I first started working from home due to the dangers of COVID-19.

I have been working in mental health for forty years and am now semi-retired. My specialty has been working with individuals who have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder). I am available to provide workshops and trainings. I also provide individual supervision to social workers, and both individual and group consultations for therapists working with clients with DID, via HIPAA-compliant Zoom.

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Workshop Presentations

I have presented workshops and trainings in the following topics:

Diagnosing and Treating DID

Vicarious Trauma

Preventing Burnout

Narrative Therapy

Social Work Ethics

HEG Neurofeedback

Intuition in the Therapeutic Process

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Education

  • Masters in Social Work (MSW)

    I graduated with honors in 1983 from Loyola University School of Social Work in Chicago, Illinois. I am a member of the Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW).

  • Narrative Therapy

    I had the privilege of being trained by Michael White in Adelaide Australia in 1999.

  • Professional Trainings

    I have been trained in numerous therapy modalities including:

    • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

    • Brainspotting (BSP)

    • Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)

    • Parent-Child Intervention Therapy (PCIT)

    • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT)

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

    • Mediation

    • Hemoencephalography (HEG) Neurofeedback

    • Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

  • Teaching Experiences

    Adjunct Instructor

    • University of Iowa School of Social Work where I have taught Master level classes in DSM and Intervention with Individuals

    • Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, Iowa where I have taught Introduction to Social Work, Ethics, Comparative Religions, and General Psychology

    Field Instructor, MSW level

    • University of Iowa, School of Social Work

    • University of Nebraska at Omaha, School of Social Work

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work

Therapy

 

Community Mental Health

Most of my therapeutic work has been in community mental health centers in Sioux City and in rural Monona County. I currently provide therapy at Burgess Health Center in Onawa, Iowa one day a week.

Private Practice

I was in private practice from 2000 to 2007 with Dean and Associates in Sioux City Iowa.

Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

I began my mental health career working in a state psychiatric hospital in Butner North Carolina. I have also worked on an inpatient Psychiatric Unit in Maui, Hawaii.

Management

I was the Director of the Mental Health Department of Burgess Health Center in Onawa, Iowa from 2007 to 2017.

Licenses

I am a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Iowa (License # 00710) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Hawaii (License # 4331)