Clinical Psychologist
In-network: Aetna
I am a licensed psychologist who works with adults in individual and group psychotherapy. I practice primarily from a psychodynamic and humanistic perspective but draw from various theoretical frameworks in my work. Regardless of the therapeutic situation, I strive to bring warmth, patience, and openness to the encounter. The clients I work with are diverse regarding their personal and social identities, history, and struggles. I work with individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, eating disorders, psychosis, substance use, trauma, personality disorders, life transitions, identity conflict, and relationship challenges.
As your therapist, my first goal will be to build an authentic relationship within which you feel heard, understood, and accepted. Building this relationship may require an element of courageous vulnerability on both of our parts. Still, through engaging with this process, we can build a strong working foundation and arrive at new insights, address painful, at times yet to be known, wounds, and discover important areas to explore together. I will seek to honor and make space for your experience while serving as an active listener and full participant.
My theoretical orientation is primarily psychodynamic and relational. I see who you are as layered and complex - composed of deeply ingrained but often unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears formed throughout your personal and relational history. Rooted in this history may be unprocessed feelings, a sense of self, and ways of being that constantly affect you in ways not fully known. Although related to the past, this may be at the heart of the challenges you face in the present. I see the work of psychotherapy as becoming aware of and engaging these different parts of you with compassion and curiosity to alleviate pain, feel more whole, and live more freely.
Our work will also be unique to you and who you strive to be - perhaps mainly based on who you already are. As a humanist, I believe you are capable of and innately driven towards growth and well-being when you are treated with understanding and respect and are valued for your perspective, strengths, thoughts, and feelings. Locating and remaining true to who you are and what is meaningful to you are things I would be deeply committed to in our work.
I received my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, and completed my internship and fellowship at the Institute of Living.
I applaud you for seeking out psychotherapy and hope we will be able to work and grow together.