About Sylma
I specialize in adolescents and young adult issues, assisting struggling teens and their frustrated families maximize success and navigate the process of growing into adults. I help teens and their families learn how to tolerate distress, manage their emotions and interact effectively with each other.
Using my background as a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, my innovative methods spark and nurture creativity that bring about the acceptance and change which allows my clients create a life they love.
Born and raised in South Africa, I have three college-aged children who continue to challenge and teach me in ongoing learning and discovery, about being a mother and parent.
My Master’s Degree in Art Therapy Psychology is from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. My Bachelor of Arts degree was completed at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where I majored in Psychology and African Languages.
I was intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Behavioral Tech and assisted in the establishment one of the first residential DBT programs at the Adolescent Program at a dual-diagnosis residential treatment facility in San Francisco. In addition to facilitating multi-family DBT skills training groups, I also conduct individual DBT psychotherapy.
I am a CAMFT-certified supervisor, and host a once-monthly Creative Artful Supervision Group for trainees, interns and licensed clinicians. Additionally I am on the adjunct faculty at the University of Notre Dame de Namur Art Therapy/Psychology Department, where I teach and supervise.
My experience working in preschool for many years, substance abuse treatment with adolescents in the County of Santa Clara, and with teens who struggle with disordered eating at Stanford’s Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, has served as fertile ground to provide me with the passion for this work.
I am licensed as a Marriage & Family Therapist in the State of California and in New Mexico.
Using my background as a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, my innovative methods spark and nurture creativity that bring about the acceptance and change which allows my clients create a life they love.
Born and raised in South Africa, I have three college-aged children who continue to challenge and teach me in ongoing learning and discovery, about being a mother and parent.
My Master’s Degree in Art Therapy Psychology is from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. My Bachelor of Arts degree was completed at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where I majored in Psychology and African Languages.
I was intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Behavioral Tech and assisted in the establishment one of the first residential DBT programs at the Adolescent Program at a dual-diagnosis residential treatment facility in San Francisco. In addition to facilitating multi-family DBT skills training groups, I also conduct individual DBT psychotherapy.
I am a CAMFT-certified supervisor, and host a once-monthly Creative Artful Supervision Group for trainees, interns and licensed clinicians. Additionally I am on the adjunct faculty at the University of Notre Dame de Namur Art Therapy/Psychology Department, where I teach and supervise.
My experience working in preschool for many years, substance abuse treatment with adolescents in the County of Santa Clara, and with teens who struggle with disordered eating at Stanford’s Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, has served as fertile ground to provide me with the passion for this work.
I am licensed as a Marriage & Family Therapist in the State of California and in New Mexico.
"Youth is a time of opportunity
But also a time of risk.
The risk for us is that
If we fail to support the
rapidly growing population of
young people around the world,
we will be left to pick up the pieces".
– Robert Blum, MD, MPH,PhD.
Johns Hopkins, 2007
But also a time of risk.
The risk for us is that
If we fail to support the
rapidly growing population of
young people around the world,
we will be left to pick up the pieces".
– Robert Blum, MD, MPH,PhD.
Johns Hopkins, 2007
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CA License # MFC41633 NM Lic# 0133601
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CA License # MFC41633 NM Lic# 0133601
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