Karla's Education and Training
Credentials
- OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT T2092
- CA Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist – LMFT 119396
- CA Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor – LPCC 9949
Education
- MS, Counseling, California State University – East Bay
- BA, Psychology, Stanford University
Experience
- ACT & OCD Therapist, 2019 - present. Provide individual and family therapy to adults, teens, children and families with a focus on anxiety disorders, OCD, and body-focused repetitive behaviors (such as trichotillomania).
- Mental Health Specialist, 2017 – 2019. Provided psychotherapy to children and adolescents as part of the Outpatient department, primarily implementing CBT and Motivational Interviewing interventions.
- Karla worked in Special Education for 10 years before starting her new career in counseling.
OCD & ERP Trainings
- Pediatric BTTI, IOCDF Training Institute, 2024
- ACT-Informed Exposures, Portland Psychotherapy, 2023
- Treating Perfectionism with ACT, SoCal ACBS, 2022
- IOCDF annual conferences, 2020-2024
- “Pure O” OCD Subtypes, Panic Attack Interventions, Simple Practice, 2021
- IOCDF special topics, including: Sexual Obsessions, OCD and Co-occurring Anxiety Disorders, OCD And Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2020
- Integrating ERP and ACT for Youth with Anxiety and OCD, Lisa Coyne 2019
- CBT for Anxiety, Beck Institute, 2019
Parenting Coaching Trainings
- SPACE consultation group, Yale, 2024
- Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) Training, 2023
- Failure to Launch by Randy Paterson, Praxis, 2023
- Alternatives for Families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 2019
Other Trainings
- Compassion Focused Therapy Training, SF ACBS, 2024
- Advanced ACT/DNA-V Consult Group by Lisa Coyne, 2020
- ComB Treatment of Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, IOCDF, 2020
- ACT special topic series, including: ACT and exposures, Self-Compassion, Difficult Emotions, Russ Harris, 2020
- Treating Trauma with ACT, Robyn Walser, 2019
- DNA-v, youth model of ACT by Louise Hayes, Praxis, 2019
- ACT Bootcamp, Association of Contextual Behavioral Science, 2019
- Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Russ Harris 2018
- Social Thinking Annual Providers Conferences, 3-day intensive, 2013-2018