I am a certified psychoanalyst and licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Manhattan where I work with adults, adolescents, and couples. In addition to my clinical work, I am on the faculty of several psychoanalytic institutes where I teach and supervise candidates in training.
My professional activities include serving on Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis’ (MIP) Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, Membership Committee, and the Steering Committee for MIP’s Certificate Program in Trauma Studies. I also founded and co-edited MIP's blog Analysis Now (see below).
I obtained my MSW from New York University’s School of Social in 1996. From there, I began my professional career in Palo Alto, CA, where I worked in Stanford Hospital’s psychiatric intensive outpatient program and at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Psychiatry in Santa Clara. At Stanford and Kaiser I provided individual, couples, and family counseling, and ran groups for patients with eating disorders and severe mood and personality disorders. During my ten years in California, my training included short-term interventions such as dialectical and cognitive behavioral therapy (DBT and CBT), aspects of which I continue to incorporate in my work today.
Returning to New York City, I was eager to expand my knowledge and training. I spent several years working at the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services’ outpatient clinic before opening my own practice in 2011. I began my psychoanalytic studies at the William Alanson White Institute’s one-year program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and studied couples therapy with Ellen Wachtel at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. In 2012, I enrolled in MIP’s five-year psychoanalytic program and, more recently, completed MIP’s Certificate Program in Trauma Studies.
After practicing for many years in the West Village, I relocated to the Upper West Side where I see patients on the ground floor of a beautiful, historic brownstone.
Below is a selection of my posts on the Analysis Now blog:
If You Rent It, Will They Come?
An Elegy for My Office From a Psychoanalyst Working Remotely
Why Did You Become a Psychoanalyst? Part I
Making Sense of the Impossible: a trauma story, part II
Making Sense of the Impossible: a trauma story, part I
The Psychoanalytic Community: My Post-Graduation Life at the Manhattan Institute
My affiliations include:
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
National Institute for the Psychotherapies
Institute for Expressive Analysis
Women’s Mental Health Consortium
William Alanson White Institute
The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
New York State Society for Clinical Social Work