About Me:

I believe a therapist’s role is to provide supportive guidance, insight, and gentle challenges during a client’s search for healing. Self-knowledge, discovery, and acceptance are the keys to psychological change. I work with my clients to develop curiosity and compassion about themselves and their suffering. With greater self-awareness, life becomes easier to manage, and choices multiply.

My counseling style is characterized by warmth, authenticity, compassion, and humor. I combine relational, cognitive, somatic, and psychodynamic therapies in a holistic approach. Working together, my clients and I create an atmosphere that encourages psychological depth: I serve as a partner, witness, and guide as we uncover the way you think, feel, sense, and understand the world.

I was born and raised in New York City and received my BA from Cornell University and an MA, MPhil. in US History from New York University. I have been working as a counselor in professional settings since 2005. I received a Master’s Degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa — a Mindfulness-driven University in Boulder, CO — in 2008. I have been practicing mindfulness since 1991 and teaching mindfulness practices for since 2000. These practices include yoga, meditation, and contemplative dance.

Continued learning is an essential part of my job as a psychotherapist. My current research and learning interests reside at the embodied intersection of the psychodynamic and the social. I am also a member of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.

I completed sex therapy training from the Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment (ISEE) in 2020. Before that, I participated in the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center’s year-long seminar in Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 2014, and continue to study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in consult and reading groups.

I began my private practice in 2014 in Portland, OR and moved back to New York State in 2021. Before starting private practice, I worked in Detox, Residential, and Outpatient settings treating acute cases of both Addiction and Mental Health Diagnoses in Boulder, CO and Portland, OR.

Additionally, I have many years of experience and training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Body-Centered, and Mindfulness- based therapies. I have extensive training in Trauma-informed therapy including the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute’s year-long Level I Training for the Treatment of Trauma taught by Pat Ogden, Ph.D in 2006.