I am a certified psychoanalyst and clinical social worker, drawn to psychotherapy as my vocation. I spent several years working in public and private psychiatric hospitals, hospice care, NYU's student counseling center and with families and children at the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children before going into private practice. I have come to understand that, across differences in identity, history and life circumstances, human connection is primary in creating the conditions within which people grow and heal.
I served as faculty, and as co-creator and director of training programs at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, and as faculty at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where I currently supervise candidates in the Two Year Psychodynamic and Four Year Psychoanalytic training programs. I continue to enjoy mentoring therapists and psychoanalysts in training through the facilitation of supervision and study groups.
I am also a lifelong dancer and movement enthusiast, and know that our bodies have their own ways of containing, working through and expressing our experiences. Because of this, I respect that even in talk therapy, transformation happens in ways that transcend verbal expression. I try to create an environment that honors and supports this.
I have a bachelors degree in social and political sciences from UC Berkeley and an MSW from Washington University in St. Louis. My studies in contemporary thinking in my field are active and ongoing, and I am grounded in the wisdom of my predecessors.
I served as faculty, and as co-creator and director of training programs at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, and as faculty at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where I currently supervise candidates in the Two Year Psychodynamic and Four Year Psychoanalytic training programs. I continue to enjoy mentoring therapists and psychoanalysts in training through the facilitation of supervision and study groups.
I am also a lifelong dancer and movement enthusiast, and know that our bodies have their own ways of containing, working through and expressing our experiences. Because of this, I respect that even in talk therapy, transformation happens in ways that transcend verbal expression. I try to create an environment that honors and supports this.
I have a bachelors degree in social and political sciences from UC Berkeley and an MSW from Washington University in St. Louis. My studies in contemporary thinking in my field are active and ongoing, and I am grounded in the wisdom of my predecessors.