Therapies

I am a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst with 25 years of private practice experience.

I offer individual and couples treatment to address:

  • Depression/Anxiety
  • Writer’s Block
  • Professional Challenges of Performing Artists
  • Career Transitions
  • Fertility Issues
  • Parenting Demands
  • Loss/Bereavement

Background

Co-Director of Supervision

for the 4 Year Adult Training Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Course Instructor

  • Basic Concepts 2, Institute for Expressive Analysis.
  • Dreams, Contemporary Theory. National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
  • Dreams, Comprehensive Overview. Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.
  • Narcissistic Shame: Treatment Implications, National Institute for the Psychotherapies (Special Elective).

Workshops

A diverse array of topics offered including: cultivating “Optimal Flow”; using dreams to evaluate mood disorders; claiming the space to write; and processing career transitions;  at NYU’s Faculty/Staff Assistance Program, The Write Idea, and Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Symposium Chair

The Immigrant in the Consulting Room, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, May 10, 2014.
Privacy Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the Analytic Relationship, May 9, 2015.
Illusions of Immortality: Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Human Condition, Spring, 2016.

Presentations

Presented at conferences and seminars on a range of topics including the challenges of initiating treatment, using dreams as supervision, exploring aspects of sibling transference and working through enactments.

Publication

“On the Road Again: Alternatives for Maintaining Psychotherapeutic Continuity with Actors,”
Medical Problems of Performing Artists, September 1992.

Education

B.A. The Johns Hopkins University.
M.S.W. Columbia University.
Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Certificate in Psychoanalytic Supervision, Manhattan Institute.
Certificate in Eating Disorders, Addictions and Compulsions.
William Alanson White Institute.