While some people come to therapy to get help with whatever is happening in the here and now, others find it useful to understand how one's past informs one's present. My work is highly interactive and I draw from various treatment modalities based on your needs, including psychodynamic, attachment-based, relational, writing therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. In addition to specializing in depressionanxiety, and relationship conflictI have experience working with the following issues and areas: 

Social Anxiety     Low Self-Esteem      Shame    

Career Counseling      Codependency       

Divorce      Family Conflict    

Loss and Grief        Infidelity        Life Transitions     

Substance Abuse     Relapse Prevention       Trauma  

PTSD     Fear of Intimacy     Anger Management

Dating     Sexual Abuse      Peer Relationships     

Academic Underachievement      Guilt

 

I graduated from Wesleyan University and got my Masters degree from the Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work. I did my postgraduate training at the Fifth Avenue Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy. In addition, I have participated in workshops and trainings at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Ackerman Institute for the Family, Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and AEDP Institute.