It's been a rainy winter here in Northern California, and as my current clients are well aware, we've had more than our share of leaky ceilings at my office. Strategically-placed trash cans and a lot of containers of Damp Rid have helped me keep the office open, but when I found an opportunity to move to a newly-renovated suite of...[ read more ]
I'll be presenting a workshop at AAMFT 2016 in Indianapolis next week. My talk is called "Difficult Dialogues: A Cultural Humility Approach to Broaching Cultural Issues," and you can have a look at my slides at the link there. It's a fairly similar talk to the one I gave at the ACA Conference in Montreal earlier this year with the...[ read more ]
I'm proud to announce that I've written a new article with my friend and colleague Dr. Deb Coolhart for the journal Family Process which is published in its latest issue. Our article, titled "Expanding the Therapy Paradigm with Queer Couples: A Relational Intersectional Lens" is part of a special issue edited by Dr. Robert-Jay Green of the Rockway Institute, focused on cutting-edge...[ read more ]
It's two months into the new year, and there have been lots of new things happening in my world. Most importantly, I've been working as the Interim Program Director for the master's in Clinical Counseling at Alliant International University in San Francisco since the fall semester. Meaning, I've had to reduce the amount of time I spend seeing clients because...[ read more ]
I'm pleased to say that I've been published in the "Fat Studies" journal, and an e-print of my article is now available online. I was asked to review two recent publications, Hanne Blank's "Big Big Love," and Rebecca Weinstein's "Fat Sex." Although I had very different responses to the two books, I was very pleased to be asked to submit...[ read more ]
