My Approach
I’m an experienced psychotherapist from New York City with private practices near Columbus Circle in Manhattan and in Forest Hills, Queens. Licensed in New York and New Jersey, I work with individuals, couples, children, and families, both in person and online.
My approach to therapy begins with establishing a relationship grounded in respect and curiosity. This relationship makes it possible to explore one’s present circumstances, primary relational patterns and attachment style, personal history, and abiding concerns.
A Broad Clinical Background
My clinical training draws from several psychotherapeutic traditions, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness practices, and advanced psychoanalytic psychotherapy training.
My psychoanalytic training has been extensive. While at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, I completed its Intensive Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; program in Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addiction Services; Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program; and Couples Therapy Training and Education Program. I have additional training in the Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program at The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
A Foundation in the Humanities
Before entering clinical practice, I served as full-time faculty in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Rhode Island. I hold a BA in Philosophy with Honors from SUNY Albany, a PhD in English Literature and Language from Northwestern University, an MSSW from Columbia University with a special focus in Narrative Therapy, and while in New England, I co-founded Changing Lives Through Literature, an alternative court-sentencing program that used literature and film as a way to encourage reflection and change.
Teaching, Supervision, & Study Groups
I teach classes at psychoanalytic institutes on both child and adult clinical practice, with particular attention to how "play" functions across the two registers—as a clinical mode with children and as a capacity to be recovered or cultivated in adult treatment.
I also supervise both seasoned and newer clinicians. With experienced therapists, supervision often centers on opening new perspectives in treatments that feel stalled—finding fresh entry points where familiar ones have stopped working. With newer clinicians, the focus is on case formulation and building confidence in an emerging clinical style.
In addition, I lead study groups that bring literary works into conversation with psychoanalytic theory and technique. These groups range across traditional Freudian concepts, contemporary Relational interventions, and the emergence of French psychoanalytic thought and its clinical applications.
Related Interests
I am also involved with the APsA President’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), an initiative of the American Psychoanalytic Association exploring the implications of AI for psychoanalytic care, education, theory, and professional life. The Commission takes up both the promise and the risks of AI and considers how psychoanalysis contributes to our thinking about what it means to be human.
For me, these questions are part of a larger interest in how changing technologies affect the ways we think, relate to one another, and understand ourselves. They also raise questions that are increasingly relevant to psychotherapy itself: what happens to intimacy, reflection, attention, and human connection as technology becomes more deeply woven into everyday life?
My psychotherapeutic approach brings together clinical experience, diverse psychotherapeutic training, and a background in the humanities. I draw on all of these perspectives with each patient, remaining attentive to the person, their circumstances, and the particular moment that brings them to therapy.
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