Book Chapters

Articles, Readings, and Blogs

• Refusing the Death Drive

• Vaccines, Viruses, and Proximities

• At Skylight: AIDS Activism Group Reading

• Refusing the Death Drive Story: A Psychotherapist Reflects on HIV, COVID-19, Trauma, and Queer Attachments in a Time of Plague(s)

• In the Sessions and Hallways at the PrEP Summit, I Saw the Hope and Challenges of HIV Prevention Today

• The Trauma of Hope: A Psychotherapist Reflects on False Cure News

• The Undetectable Problem: Trauma and Adherence

• The Undetectable Problem: Dating, Sex, and Criminalization

• Charlie Sheen and (Celebrity) HIV Status

• Self-Determination and the Struggle to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV

• Safe Passage: Two California Bills Could Protect Queer Youth and Queer Families

• Self-Care for Activists Post-DADT and the DREAM Act

• A Letter to LGBTQ Youth: An Apology and A Promise

• Bullied to Death: A Call to Action for the Rest of Us

Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations

• “Somatic and Embodiment Practices for Working with Transgender, GNB, and Gender Questioning Youth and Adults,” Transgender Health Summit, 2019

• “Queering Attachments: Sex, Death, and Trauma (or how surviving the plague years teaches us to reimagine embodiment and futurity),” AASECT Summer Institute, 2018

• “Curiosity, Consent, and Countertransference: Working with Sexual Outsiders,” Summer Institute on Sexuality, Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality, San Francisco State University, 2018

• “What Do Our Clients Really Need from Us: How to Be an Ally for Sexual and Mental Health,” State of Michigan HIV/STI Conference, 2017

• “Post-Traumatic Plague Syndrome: An Exploration of Cross Serostatus and Intergenerational Differences,” Coping with Hope HIV Conference, Los Angeles, 2015

• “Post ?Traumatic Plague Syndrome: Transference, Countertransference, Identifications and Disidentifications,” UCSF, 2015

• “Queer Family Planning,” Our Family Coalition/Laurel Fertility event for LGBTQ and single prospective parents, 2012

• “Minding the Cleavage: A Cross-Generational Dialog,” Femme Conference, Oakland, 2010. [Facilitated Discussion]

• On Gender Conference, Women’s Therapy Center, 2010: Facilitator on Genderqueer issues

• Queer Bodies in Psychotherapy Conference, 2008: Plenary Lecture: “My Enemy Who Is So Beautiful – Resistance, Resiliency, and Countertransference in Psychotherapy with Queer Activists”

Selected Courses

• Integrating Somatic Psychodynamics and Social Justice Perspectives, co-presented with Ian Grand, PhD, Women’s Therapy Center

• The Psychodynamics of Social Justice, Women’s Therapy Center

• Starting a Private Practice, Women’s Therapy Center

• Queer Bodies in Psychotherapy, California Institute of Integral Studies

• Integrative Seminar, California Institute of Integral Studies

• Cross-Cultural Counseling, California Institute of Integral Studies

• Human Development, California Institute of Integral Studies