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ABOUT

Hi, I'm Paula. 

I am a psychotherapist in private practice, (a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker). 

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​For over a decade, I have helped clients who suffer from depression and anxiety, relationship strife, self doubt and despair.

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I love working with those who suffer from years (sometimes decades) of dieting, disordered eating, food obsession, internalized weight stigma and body hatred.

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ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME
EDUCATION

I am licensed to practice clinical social work in California, Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland.

I am a playful, creative, permission-based, relational therapist.

I draw from liberation, somatic, and expressive arts modalities, as well as transpersonal, queer and eco-psychologies.

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I work mainly with adults, young people, members of the LGTBQIA+ community, couples/relationships, and anyone hoping to gain freedom and contentment in their internal experience.
 

For a decade I was a professor of Weight & Society at George Washington University. It was a body justice course that explored the myths of current measures of health, our culture's thin idealism, and society's relentless oppression of large bodies.

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I treat clients suffering from body and food issues with Body Justice-focused, weight neutral, anti-diet approaches. 

I am a member of The International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, the National Association of Social Workers and the California Society for Clinical Social Work.

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  • San Francisco State University, Bachelors in Psychology

  • Hunter College School of Social Work, Masters in Social Work 

  • Registered Yoga Teacher, 2003

  • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, 2011

LICENSES

  • LCSW, California

  • LICSW, Washington DC

  • LCSW, Virginia 

  • LMSW, Maryland 

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Links for more about me & how I work:

 

CONTACT

CONTACT ME

I moved (home) to California!

Until I find an office here in Palm Springs,

I am currently providing only virtual sessions.

PHONE

202.215.8356

E-MAIL

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