Individual, couples, and group psychotherapy
Why psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy can be used to assist people who are feeling stuck or unfulfilled as well as help those struggling with stressful life transitions; experiences often accompanied by depression and anxiety. Through my straightforward and active approach, I help my clients enhance their self-awareness and develop important skill sets to navigate difficult circumstances. I also believe it essential to learn about the impact of one's past on current relationships.
I highly value the connection I have with my clients and I make every effort to foster a therapeutic environment that feels natural and authentic. Within this environment, clients can grow and reach their full potential.
Services and Training
Couples therapy
In addition to individual psychotherapy, I provide therapy for couples. My approach to couples therapy primarily focuses on increasing direct emotional communication between partners. Bickering, resentment, or a sense of flatness can often be reasons for entering into couples therapy as well as simply a wish to be closer to one’s partner. In therapy, we get behind the unpleasantness on the surface and understand where partners are missing out on deep emotional connections.
Clinical style
My work is primarily influenced by psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral theories. Additionally, my extensive work with socioeconomically and racially diverse populations throughout New York City as well as with military veterans has afforded me a wide array of training and educational opportunities that inform my therapeutic approach.
group psychotherapy
Group psychotherapy is often experienced as equally effective or more effective than individual psychotherapy. In group, patients provide support as well as feedback for each other, which allows for substantial personal growth. Patients bring to group past and current relationship patterns that have become stale and unhealthy. Group offers a safe but challenging environment that breaks up these ingrained interpersonal cycles. I am a Certified Group Psychotherapist and I am board certified in Group Psychotherapy. I also teach group therapy at the Yeshiva University PsyD program.
Training
I received my Ph.D. in psychology from Long Island University-Brooklyn. My training experiences consist of acute inpatient psychotherapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, college counseling, HIV+ outpatient clinic psychotherapy, and advanced training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. I completed my psychology internship at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs hospital with a particular focus on group therapy and PTSD. I completed postdoctoral fellowship at the therapy group: Therapists of New York.
Currently, I work in my own private practice and am board certified in group psychotherapy.
My research examined the complexities of emotional responses in the face of social ostracizing.
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**I am currently providing virtual psychotherapy via Zoom