Training & Experience

EDUCATION

• Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling from Clearmind International (2023), MA in Education, University of Colorado at Denver (1997), BA in Psychology, Claremont McKenna College (1991)

GRIEFWORK

• Cowichan Hospice Volunteer Bereavement Companion, 2018-2021

• Community Grief Ritual 5-month Training with Francis Weller, 2023-2024

TRAUMA + SOMATIC STUDIES

• Somatic Experiencing 3-year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner designation anticipated in 2025.

• Somatic EMDR credential with The Embody Lab, several Hakomi training workshops, 2022-2023, Instructor of Yoga & Mindfulness for Parents, Children & Early Childhood Educators, 2002-2012, Yoga instructor

  CLIMATE, MENTAL HEALTH + WORLD GRIEF

• Faculty member, Climate Emotional Resilience Institute

• Co-chair, Committee to Support Scientists & STEM Professionals, Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

• Member, Clinical Support Committee, Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

• Climate Psychology certification through CIIS, December 2022

• Good Grief Network FLOW Facilitator since January 2021, affiliate facilitator trainer since spring 2022

• Work That Reconnects facilitator training (ongoing) with School for the Great Turning, 2025

• International Trauma Resilience Coalition, Community of Practice training, 2024 & 2025, Thicket Trauma-Focused Climate and Resiliency Training, Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, Transforming Climate Trauma, Psychology of Climate Crisis with Dr. Barbara Easterlin, Work That Reconnects with Frieda Nixdorf

  ANTI-RACISM/SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM

• Certification in Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies, Education for Racial Equity, 2022

• Working with Cultural Diversity in the Therapeutic Setting with Dr. Myrna Lashley

• Decolonizing Therapy with Jennifer Mullan (part of CIIS Climate Psychology certification, 2022)

PARENTING

• Professional’s Intensive, Hand-in-Hand Parenting by Connection, 2024

• Decades of conscious parenting, many many workshops along the way having raised 3 kids!

  MINDFUL EATING & BODY IMAGE:

• Relational interventions as part of the cure: AEDP in the treatment of eating disorders, 2023

• Mindful Eating MB-EAT Training for Practitioners

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

• Boggiano, Ann & Barrett, Marty & Kellam, Teddy. (1993).  Competing Theoretical Analyses of Helplessness: A Social-Developmental Analysis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 55(2). 194-207.

• Boggiano, Ann & Shields, Ann & Barrett, Marty & Kellam, Teddy & Thompson, Erik & Simons, Jeffrey & Katz, Phyllis. (1992). Helplessness deficits in students: The role of motivational orientation. Motivation and Emotion. 16. 271-296.

  OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Research consultant for On Lok in San Francisco, 2011-2016

• Research & Grant writing National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1998-2000

• Grant-writer for Family Service Agency of San Francisco, 2000