I have been a therapist in both private practice and residential treatment since 2008.  Before that, I had a very different career, working in the television and film industry in both Chicago and Los Angeles from 1993 to 2006.  As that career grew more physically and mentally taxing, I decided to make a change, and went back to school to get a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology.  I was licensed as a Marriage & Family Therapist a few years later.  My interests always tended towards a more depth and insight-oriented approach to therapy, and in 2017 I completed a Doctoral degree in psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.