Clinical Experience

• Pre Doctoral Internship, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Provided Individual and Couples Therapy

• Post Doctoral Internship, Belmont Village and Sunset Assisted Living Facilities, Several private facilities,  Los Angeles

Provided personal therapy to geriatrics , terminally ill and dying patients in their private rooms at these facilities.

Somatic Practitioner

• Residential Inpatient Treatment Center, Malibu, CA
• Worked one-to-one with patients suffering from traumatic experiences such as cult abuse, sexual, physical and emotional abuse to help them discharge their shock states and access their capacity for self regulation, as a result patients were able to restore their feeling of aliveness and increase their reconnection with their bodies.

Suicide Crisis Counselor

• Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center, Los Angeles, CA

Psychology Institute of Mehre-Taban, Tehran, Iran

• Conducted Psychotherapy sessions with individuals, couples, and teenagers. Patients challenges related to mental health, relationships, work, school stressors, life transitions or specific diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, addictions, PTSD….Other challenges were self esteem, assertiveness, anger, shame as well as past trauma and/ or unresolved issues from childhood.

Non profit Cancer Institute, Iran

• I held women groups and conducted individual sessions.

Shell Oil Co. Iran

• Lead a Stress Management Seminar for employees of Shell Oil Co. who were being laid off.