About Me
About Me
I have been practicing psychology in Morristown since 1995. In addition to private practice, I teach, supervise, and train psychologists and psychoanalysts in New Jersey and New York.
My professional interests have always centered on human development: how people become who they are, how early experiences continue to shape later life, and how relationships influence emotional well-being across the lifespan.
That interest led me to pursue advanced training in psychoanalysis, trauma, infancy, attachment, and child development. Although my patients range in age and present with many different concerns, the questions that interest me most remain remarkably consistent. How do people adapt to difficult circumstances? What helps them recover? What allows them to grow despite adversity, loss, illness, and disappointment?
Over the years, I have worked with many people who arrived feeling discouraged, misunderstood, or uncertain about whether therapy could help them. Often, what they needed was not more effort, but a more accurate understanding of the problem itself. Careful assessment and thoughtful treatment can make an enormous difference.
Before people can change, they need to understand what they are dealing with. One of the most important parts of my work is helping patients make sense of experiences that have felt confusing, contradictory, or difficult to name. Accurate understanding is often the foundation of effective treatment.
Practicing in Morristown since 1995
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist
- Psychoanalyst
- Private Practice in Morristown Since 1995
- Clinical Supervisor and Instructor, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
- Training Analyst, Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey
- Faculty, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Education and Training
I received my undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and earned my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. I completed my internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
My early training focused on work with adults, infants and preschool aged children, and older children and adolescents. As my career developed, I became increasingly interested in the ways early experience, family relationships, and emotional development continue to shape people throughout their lives.
That interest became the foundation for the advanced training that followed and continues to influence my work with adults, adolescents, children, and families today.
Areas of Clinical Specialization
Throughout my career, I have developed particular expertise in trauma, adoption, attachment, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, and the ways early experiences continue to shape emotional life..
These interests grew from a longstanding fascination with how people develop, how early experience shapes later life, and how individuals respond to adversity, loss, illness, and psychological conflict.
My postdoctoral training included psychoanalysis through the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey, advanced specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies through the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and additional training in infancy, attachment, and child development.
These areas of specialization continue to inform my work with adults, adolescents, children, and families today.
Teaching, Supervision, and Professional Service
In addition to private practice, I teach, supervise, and train psychologists and psychoanalysts. I serve as a Clinical Field Supervisor and Instructor at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, a Training Analyst at the Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey, and a faculty member at the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in New York City.
Throughout my career, I have remained committed not only to clinical work, but also to professional education, advocacy, and service. I have provided training for mental health professionals, child welfare workers, attorneys, and community organizations, and I have written and presented extensively on trauma, adoption, attachment, child development, and psychotherapy.
As a volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights, I have participated in the Asylum Network, providing psychological evaluations for asylum seekers and authoring white papers for immigration attorneys on the psychological effects of trauma, persecution, and forced displacement.
My practice includes psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults, adolescents, children, and families facing trauma, adoption-related concerns, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, and other emotional and psychological difficulties.
Teaching, supervision, writing, and advocacy have always been extensions of the same commitment that led me into psychology in the first place: using psychological knowledge not only to help individual patients, but also to support children and families, educate future clinicians, and contribute to the larger community.