I am a licensed clinical psychologist with practices in Manhattan and Long Island. I work with adults, adolescents, and children presenting with a wide range of concerns and difficulties. I am a graduate of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, City College. My clinical background and training include an emphasis on in-depth and longer-term treatment, and I also draw from more structured treatment approaches and interventions where I feel it will be helpful. 

During the course of my training and clinical practice, I have worked with both adults and children with a diverse set of life experiences and backgrounds. While at City College, I completed a multi-year externship working with adults and children at the program’s community-based mental health clinic. I completed my predoctoral internship at the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, working intensively with children, adolescents, and families. I then trained as a postdoctoral fellow at both the William Alanson White Institute and at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. In addition to my practice, I currently supervise doctoral students in the clinical psychology program at City College. 

My clinical and scholarly interests include psychodynamic and integrative theories of psychotherapy and their implications for treatment. I have coauthored a book on compulsive doubting and obsessive-compulsive disorder, titled Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty: Struggling with a Shadow of a Doubt (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield). The book seeks to develop a psychodynamic and integrative framework for the understanding and treatment of OCD doubting and chronic uncertainty.

At the center of my approach is the effort to render as fully as I can the nature of each patient’s experiences of their world and their relationships, of their present and of their past. I see this effort as a collaborative process through which patients deepen their understanding of themselves, their hopes and fears, their struggles and their strengths. The goal of this process is to help patients develop the tools they need to live fuller and more meaningful lives.

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