B.S. - University of California Davis 1983 - major Biological Sciences, minor Pyschology             M.D. - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 1987                                Psychiatry Residency - Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 1987-1990                           Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, University of California Irvine 1990-1992                Outpatient Clinic, Medical Director of Day Hospital - Minirth-Meier Clinics West 1992-1994       Diplomate in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 1994                      Solo Private Practice - Irvine, California 1994-current                                                                          Associate - Mission Psychological Consultants/ADD Treatment Center 1997-current                Diploma of the Institute of Homeopathy 1998                                                                                         Diplomate in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by ABPN 1999

Every person is unique. I'm less concerned about diagnosis than about identifying what is out of balance in body, mind, and spirit. Imbalance causes rigidity and stress that may manifest as either emotional or physical disturbance. For example, chronic anger and bitterness may lead to an ulcer in one person, depression in another, and alcoholism in a third depending on genetic, personality, and environmental factors.

We all seek love. Relationship is essential to healing and the foundation of psychotherapy. But sometimes brain chemicals become depleted due to years of dysfunctional relationships, unhealthy lifestyles, or genetic susceptibility. The correct medication can help to brighten the darkness of depression, sooth the anguish of anxiety, or clear the fog of attention deficits, thus providing a boost up towards living life more fully and creatively.