Training:

I received my doctoral degree in Psychology from the City University of New York in 1993. I subsequently completed a two-year fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center.  I stayed on at the Yale University School of Medicine for several years after completing the fellowship, working alongside of other mental health and community professionals, including the New Haven police department, local schools and social service agencies to provide clinical services through many Yale Child Study Center-based programs.

I moved to Maryland in 1999 and opened my clinical practice in Washington D.C. and Chevy Chase.  I pursued my analytic training and graduated from the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, and I am a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society.

I am also a Co-Chair of the New Directions In Writing program, a three-year low-residency writing program at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

I currently have a full-time practice in Friendship Heights, Maryland.

Teaching:

Alongside my private practice I have supervised in psychology graduate programs and have taught classes in numerous training programs. These include:

The George Washington University Psy.D. Program

The Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis

Contemporary Freudian Society

The Washington School of Psychiatry

The New Directions in Writing Program of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society

I have also presented or discussed papers at numerous programs and conferences, including The American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, The American Psychoanalytic Association and The Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Society.

I have co-authored and co-edited four books, and have authored a number of professional chapters and articles. I use writing as a teaching tool and as a way to help others gain a window into the experience of therapy – from both sides of the couch.  It is my hope that being able to read about how therapy works and understand how therapists think will be useful both for those considering becoming a therapist and those entering into therapy themselves.