CLINICAL APPROACH:

In my clinical work, I seek to provide a safe supportive space, employing a client centered eclectic approach, starting where you are, to help you uncover aspects of your life, experiences, and relationships that are not in alignment with your needs and goals. Addressing these aspects will enhance your ability to function to your fullest potential.

SPECIALTIES:

I specialize in the incorporation of mindfulness practices including somatic resourcing and experiencing techniques and the utilization of eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) for embodied trauma. I employ a psychodynamic/Jungian framework, augmented with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and trauma focused-CBT techniques when clinically relevant. I work with pre-teens, adolescents, families and adults in individual, family, and couple’s therapy. With couples, I use an emotion-focused therapy approach, with the understanding that communication barriers can be resolved by identifying the core needs of the individuals and the couple. I am ENM, Poly, kink, and LGBTQIA+ aware. I offer KAP (ketamine assisted psychotherapy) as a Journey Clinical clinician, and can also discuss offering KAP for those who are able to acquire a prescription with a prescriber and are wanting preparatory, KAP, and integration sessions. 

BACKGROUND AND CREDENTIALS:

I earned my Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University specializing in child, adolescent, and family. I received my clinical training from an array of institutions and facilities in New York City including Mount Sinai Beth Israel adult/geriatric inpatient (research), the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the Maimonides Medical Center child/adolescent outpatient track. My doctoral-level internship was at Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a multiple-ward in-patient psychiatric hospital, where I created a mindfulness group therapy for the crisis and sex offender unit in addition to my internship requirements. Throughout the pandemic, as a post-doc, and as a newly licensed psychologist I was a staff psychologist in multiple skilled nursing home facilities in Queens.

 I am EMDR Basic 1 and 2 trained and I am licensed to practice in NY and NJ. I am an Embark-certified facilitator of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy in Cybin’s first-in-human trial of CYB003 for major depressive disorder. I am a lead dosing session monitor on multiple randomized controlled trials for multiple psychedelics in NJ and NY. I am a Journey Clinical KAP clinician, and offer KAP (ketamine assisted psychotherapy) in my practice. Reach out to discuss various options. 

CLINICAL APPROACH:

My work is shaped by a deep passion for helping individuals, couples, and families nurture meaningful connections—with themselves and their loved ones—while exploring the interplay of these relationships. From a basis of self-understanding, I guide the examination of unhelpful patterns and cultivate healthier, more gratifying ways of relating. 

My style is highly interactive. While rooted in a relational and an insight-oriented approach, I integrate techniques from various models to meet my clients’ needs. I have advanced training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, while also incorporating elements of developmentally-sensitive, identity-affirming, trauma-informed therapies and systemic models where individuals are understood within the context of their most important relationships. Additionally, I specialize in treating a wide range of presenting concerns, including depression, anxiety, and trauma experienced in both child and adulthood. 

SPECIALTIES:

As a certified couples and sex therapist, I have expertise in helping clients successfully navigate relational conflicts, intimacy challenges, emotional detachment and overwhelm, fear of abandonment and commitment, codependency, people-pleasing, aggression as defense, blockages to self-expression and communication. My approach to couples work synthesizes ideas and techniques from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Bowenian family systems theory (BFST) and intergenerational patterning, Imago relationship therapy (IRT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and a psychobiological approach to couples therapy (PACT) derived from neuroscience-informed and attachment-based practices. 

BACKGROUND AND CREDENTIALS:

I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Barnard College of Columbia University and a master’s degree with honors in social work from NYU’s Silver School. I hold advanced certifications from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), the Training Institute for Mental Health (TI) for couples and relationship therapy, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) for sex therapy.