Facility San Rafael Medical Center Department of Psychiatry Address 820 Las Gallinas Avenue San Rafael CA 94903 Telephone Appt/Advice: (415) 444-3522 Cancellation: (415) 444-3044 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

My Office Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	9:00 am 9:00 pm	10:00 am 6:00 pm	1:00 pm 9:00 pm	9:00 am 9:00 pm

Monday:
2 to 4 pm senior group;
7 to 9 pm mindfulness meditation and creative coping
Thursday:
7 to 9 pm mid-life process group

Welcome To My Home Page!

I am pleased to offer this web site as a means to provide helpful medical information for my patients, as well as an opportunity for you to learn more about me. I hope that through this medium I will be able to better serve you with the most current information, useful handouts, and helpful web links.

I am proud to be a member of such a quality department and medical group here at Kaiser Permanente, and I hope that we can always provide high quality of care and service to you.

My particular psychotherapeutic orientation is to view most human suffering as originating from a spiritual problem, that is, a problem with one's sense of meaning, value and purpose. I strongly believe that the resolution of this problem involves a process which must include the condition of one's body and the quality of one's relationship to the environment and to significant others.

My therapeutic practice attempts to integrate Asian/Buddhist psychology with the best of Western psychological methodologies. I also facilitate several groups at Kaiser:
a) mindfulness meditation and creative coping,
b) mid-life group process, and
c) an afternoon senior group.

The following outline is a brief synopsis about how I came to work with the staff here at Kaiser Permanente:

Professional School: State University of New York - Class of 1991, California Institute of Integral Studies - M.A. Comparative Philosophy and Ph.D. Buddhist Philosophy/Psychology
Board Certification: Licensed Clinical Social Workers – LCWS17828
Languages Spoken: English
With Kaiser Permanente Since: February 2002

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome, and I look forward to seeing you at your next appointment.

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