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I am a psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapist with offices in New York City and Stony Brook, Long Island. I hold degrees from Yale University (BA, cum laude, with honors) and NYU (MSW; recipient, Ehrenkranz Award for outstanding scholarship) as well as certification from the contemporary relational psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic training program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, an intensive four-year postgraduate training program in New York City, from which I received the prestigious Educators Award upon graduation. Recently I was the invited speaker at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) Professional Association's Annual Fall Colloquium, where I presented my clinical work in the company of discussants Darlene Ehrenberg, PhD (author of "The Intimate Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction") and Robert Grossmark, PhD (coeditor of "Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory"; author of articles on psychoanalytic process). I will also be speaking on a panel at the forthcoming annual conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), Sustaining Creativity in our Psychoanalytic Work. Other affiliations include serving as Editorial Consultant for the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives; mental health consultant for the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University; and affiliate member of the Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Prior to the development of my private practice, my work experience included providing individual psychotherapy at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies clinic; outpatient psychotherapy and group leadership at one of Albert Einstein College of Medicine's community-based mental health clinics; and individual and group work at a Harlem elementary school. I work equally well with adults and children. I have a deep background in the arts, and I have found that the combination of my creative background and my psychological training makes me particularly well-placed to understand and work with the specific set of sensitivities and struggles that artists face. I have carved out a specialty in working with performers and theater practitioners, and my practice consists of a number of actors, writers, musicians, singers, comedians - as well as those pursuing many other career paths. |