I am a seasoned psychotherapist with over 25 years of clinical experience, training, and practice. I have an empathic, warm style, and make use of therapeutic approaches that are integrative, relational, trauma-informed, and experientially emotion-focused. I use evidence and measurement-based approaches with a focus on treatment goals.

I first started working in the mental health field over 25 years ago. Some of my first experiences were in the psychiatry departments of large, urban, teaching-hospitals in New York City, advocating for my clients and identifying resources and community support. I became a clinical social worker because I was passionate about the helping profession, wanting to support others in finding deeper and healthier connections in their relationships and in healing from painful and often traumatic life experiences. As I've grown and strengthened both professionally and personally as a psychotherapist and clinical social worker, I have come to realize and respect how much of my own healing has come about from this meaningful career and from my own human journey walking alongside and together with my amazing patients.

I love to swim and exercise. I love spending time with my 3 young adult children, my life partner, and my close friends. I love to read both non-fiction and clinical books that support me in becoming a strong psychotherapist. I am interested in auto-ethnographic writing. I love to travel and see fine cinema.

I actively practice mindfulness-based meditation daily to support my emotional well-being and steadiness. I love to walk in New York City and throughout Central Park. I find fulfillment and joy in spending time in connection with family and close friends every day.

Hold Me Tight, written by Dr. Sue Johnson, the founder of EFT- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is amazing for creating deeper and more emotionally intimate relationships. I also love Hilary Jacob Hendel's It's Not Always Depression and Ronald Frederick's Living Like You Mean It. Both of these books teach us ways to develop deeper awareness of our emotions in order to live life more fully, to strengthen inner resilience, and to flourish.