Eve has worked with adults, adolescents and families as a psychotherapist since 1996. Her areas of specialization are: substance abuse/addiction recovery, grief/loss and resolving complex and single incident trauma.
Prior to getting licensed, she worked as an Emergency Response Children’s Social Worker for the LA County Department of Children and Family Services for 6 years.
After recognizing the indisputable link between unresolved trauma, grief and loss and substance abuse, Eve became certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 2004, a technique for resolving trauma and other debilitating emotional states and also certified through the Grief Recovery Institute as a Grief Recovery Specialist in 2008.
Always eager to continue to enhance her therapeutic skills, Eve has completed a 3 year training in Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy with Susan Warren Warshow, is a Level 1 practitioner in Pat Ogden’s Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and plans to continue her training to become certified in Sensorimotor psychotherapy.
Eve continues to facilitate educational classes, parenting, teen, multi-family, family education, self regulation, relapse prevention, day treatment, grief recovery and early sobriety groups.
In addition to her work in Addiction Medicine for the past 18 years, she works as the trauma specialist at a private rehab in Malibu, specializing in co-occurring disorders.
Eve’s clinical philosophy is one of pragmatism sprinkled with humor, based on treating each client as an individual with specific needs and empowering clients through education as well as introspection. She works with each client to better understand and resolve challenges in their lives, whether they require short-term intervention or longer-term treatment. By utilizing complementary therapy approaches and techniques along with a positive alliance with each client and colleagues, she works to transform and rework significant emotional experiences and family issues that may be holding clients back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life.