Since arriving to The Bronx from rural Illinois in 1991, I have dedicated my career to helping children and families. Over the years, I’ve worked in various settings including public and private schools, a psychiatric hospital, a therapeutic nursery, and several community-based social service agencies. I am comfortable working with such issues as parenting, gender and sexuality, divorce and co-parenting, substance abuse and recovery, foster care and reunification, domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, serious mental illness, and poverty.
I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work degree in 1994 from Lehman College, a CUNY University. In 1996, I graduated with my Master of Social Work degree from Yeshiva University, Washington Heights, NY.
I attended Harlem Family Institute (HFI) from 1998-2001, where I received a Certificate of Completion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Founded in 1991, this progressive institute reimagined psychoanalytic training, and the populations that traditionally received psychoanalysis. I remain active with HFI as their Alumni Affairs Coordinator.
Included in my experience is my own personal psychotherapy. I participated in individual psychotherapy with a trained psychoanalyst throughout my 20’s, and on-and off since then. I also participated in couple counseling with a master clinician trained in Imago Therapy. Perhaps the most beneficial to my personal and professional development was my eight-year participation in a psychoanalytic group facilitated by the renowned Dr. Louis R. Ormont, (1918-2008), founder of Modern Group Psychoanalysis, of the Center for Group Studies (CGS).
I am proud of my therapy work. I’ve gained a deeper understanding of myself, the change process, and the healing benefits of a good-fit therapeutic relationship. While I rely on my professional experience, along with empirical research and theoretical foundations to guide me as a professional, I also have a keen understanding of how it feels to be “patient”.
After many years of maintaining my private practice in Bergen County, NJ, I opened an office in the beautiful and historic town of Honesdale, PA in 2019. I was warmly welcomed by the NEPA mental health community, as well as the kind people of Honesdale, for which I am grateful. I look forward to providing many more years of quality services to residents of NEPA.
LOCATION:
602 Church Street, 1st Floor
Honesdale, PA 18431
(201) 527-5305
* Most Insurance Plans Accepted.
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