Background

Course Offerings

  • Dreams, Contemporary Theory. National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) Adult Training Program in Psychoanalysis
  • Dreams, Comprehensive Overview. Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and NIP’s National Training Program.
  • Termination Issues. NIP’s National Training Program
  • Money Matters. NIP’s Adult Training Program in Psychoanalysis
  • Narcissistic Shame: Treatment Implications. NIP’s Adult Training Program (Special Elective).
  • Basic Concepts 2. Institute for Expressive Analysis.

Workshops

  • Working with money issues in treatment and training settings. NIP
  • Using dreams to evaluate mood disorders. NYU’s Faculty/Staff Assistance Program
  • “A Room of One’s Own: Claiming The Space To Write.” The Write Idea

Presentations

  • Addressing  the challenges of initiating treatment using an “In Treatment” television episode for illustrations. MIP
  • Using Patients’ Dreams As Supervision for the Therapist. The Fifth Avenue Counseling Center.
  • Exploring Aspects of Sibling Transference. NIP

Symposium Chair for NIP’s Annual Conference

  • Illusions of Immortality: Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Human Condition.Spring 2016
  • Privacy Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the Analytic Relationship.May 2015
  • The Immigrant in the Consulting Room.May 2014

Former Co-Director of Supervision

NIP’s Adult Training Program in Psychoanalysis 2017-2023

Publications

  • “Navigating the Patriarchy: A Review of Nasty Women-Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 22:3, 473-480.
  • “Love and Mercy: A Psychoanalyst Reviews” MIP Blog post 2015
  • “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.