Finding a therapist is a personal decision.

Beyond training and credentials, you want someone you can actually talk to. Someone who will listen carefully, understand what you are trying to say, and help you make sense of what is going on without making the process feel overly clinical or mysterious.

That is how I try to work.

What it is like to work with me

My style is warm, engaged, and direct. I want therapy to feel like a real conversation with someone who is paying attention, thinking with you, and willing to be honest when that is helpful.

You should feel comfortable bringing in the parts of your experience that are confusing, difficult, embarrassing, or simply hard to put into words.

Attentive

A place to bring in what is difficult, confusing, or not yet fully clear.

Collaborative

You should understand what we are doing and why. We will work together to make sense of what is bringing you in and what kind of path forward feels useful.

Individualized

The work should fit your needs, goals, pace, and personality rather than expecting you to fit into a particular kind of therapy.

Different perspectives

Different ways of understanding people

My training has included behavioral, insight-oriented, and experiential approaches. That range has shaped how I think about therapy.

My training includes behavioral, insight-oriented, and experiential approaches. Sometimes the most useful work is practical and focused on changing a pattern. At other times, it may mean slowing down and understanding yourself or your experience more deeply. Often, it is both.

Sometimes the most useful work is practical and focused on changing a pattern that is getting in the way. At other times, it may mean slowing down, understanding yourself more deeply, or making sense of how past and present experiences connect. Often, it is some combination of both.

You know your own experience better than anyone else. My role is to listen closely, bring another perspective, and help us find a way forward together.

You know your own experience better than anyone else. My role is to listen closely, bring another perspective, and help you understand yourself in ways that create more choice and flexibility in how you live, relate, and respond.

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Clinical Training

Training & Background

I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology with a Health Emphasis from Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and completed my APA-accredited internship at the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

My training has included trauma-focused treatment, health psychology, longer-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, and work across outpatient, inpatient, medical, college counseling, and psychiatric settings. I later completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The CBT/DBT Center, where I worked with teens, adults, and parents, including Jewish clients and families from a wide range of communities and backgrounds.

That range of experience has exposed me to very different people, problems, and circumstances, giving me a broad clinical frame of reference. It has also reinforced the importance of understanding the particular person in front of me, because even familiar concerns can look very different from one person to the next.

Training & Experience

COMMUNITY & CRISIS EXPERIENCE

Beyond the Therapy Room

I spent many years volunteering as an EMT with Hatzalah, responding to medical and psychiatric emergencies in the community.

That work has included being with people and families during some of the most difficult moments of their lives, including situations involving serious illness, psychiatric crisis, and the need to share devastating news with family members.

Over time, I also became someone people in my community would call directly or consult when a mental health emergency needed to be handled professionally, discreetly, and with as little conflict as possible. Those situations often required balancing safety, privacy, family dynamics, and the need to make decisions when emotions were running high.

Over time, I also became someone people in my community would call directly and consult when a mental health emergency needed to be handled professionally, discreetly, and with as little conflict as possible. Those situations often required balancing safety, privacy, family dynamics, and the need to make decisions when emotions were running high.

Emergency work is highly collaborative. I have worked alongside other responders and medical professionals in fast-moving situations where clear communication, judgment, and coordinated decision-making matter. I am comfortable consulting and communicating with physicians, psychiatrists, schools, and other professionals when collaboration is useful to a client’s care.

These experiences have given me a great deal of familiarity with crisis, uncertainty, and difficult conversations, as well as with the importance of staying thoughtful and measured when the situation around may be anything but.

Could working together be a good fit?

The easiest way to find out is to have a brief conversation.

I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation so we can talk about what is bringing you in, what you are looking for, and whether working together feels like a good fit.

I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation so we can briefly talk about what is bringing you in and whether working together feels like a good fit.

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