I am a Licensed Psychotherapist practicing in Westchester County and through online video sessions. I have a graduate degree in Social Work from Fordham University and postgraduate training in Psychodynamic Clinical Practice at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City.

I work with adults 18 and over on a variety of issues including:

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Trauma

• Marital and relationship issues

• Family and peer conflicts

• Professional and scholastic struggles

• Stress

• Self esteem

Now that I’ve search engine optimized this section of my website, I’m going to invite you to throw out all of those terms and look at therapy from a different perspective. Terms like ‘depression’, ‘anxiety’ and ‘trauma’ can be useful and informative but are also limited. They are not descriptive terms that convey what the real problem is; that is, they do not describe a person’s actual lived struggles or problems. 

Here is a list of phrases that, in my experience, speak to why people actually come to therapy:

• I'm afraid that I'm becoming just like my mother/father

• I keep having the same problems in life over and over again

• There’s a voice inside my head that is constantly criticizing me

• I have no idea what to do with my life

• Everyone is always asking how I feel about things, but I usually don’t feel anything at all

• There are parts of myself that I’m ashamed of and, in spite of my best efforts, I can’t always hide them from others

• If I’m not working or thinking about work, I’m not sure what to do with myself

• I can’t make connections with people and I don’t know why

• The only emotion I learned to express was anger

• I don’t have anyone I can really talk to