Specialties

I am fully prepared to help you address concerns in these areas. If you’re looking for support in an area that isn’t listed, I am happy to further discuss how I can help or point you in the direction of someone else who can.

    • Understand triggers

    • Lifestyle habits for managing anxiety

    • Communication style

    • Core beliefs about oneself and the world

    • Unhelpful cognitions

    • Avoidance behaviors, compulsive behaviors

    • Traumatic experiences

    • Boundaries in relationships

    • Relaxation and mindfulness exercises

    • Improve self-talk

    • Collaborative problem-solving

    • Develop a “thicker skin” or emotional resilience

    • Social anxiety, separation anxiety, panic, specific phobias, OCD

    • Anticipating episodes

    • Establishing baseline function

    • Core beliefs and unhelpful cognitions about oneself and the world

    • Improve self-talk

    • Grief

    • Engage in behavioral activation to increase motivation

    • Lifestyle habits for managing depression

    • Substance Abuse/Dependency

    • Ensure safety

    • Communication Skills

    • Interpersonal role transitions

    • Find and strengthen your social support system

    • Understand/adjust parenting style (warmth, control)

    • Developmentally appropriate expectations

    • Forming and communicating rules

    • Improve quality of interactions with child

    • Collaborative problem-solving

    • Strengths and barriers in co-parenting

    • Supporting child’s mental health

    • Family rituals and routines

    • Empowering parents as authority figures

    • Codependency, “People pleaser” behavior, fears of rejection or abandonment

    • Childhood trauma, identify and heal attachment wounds

    • Separate from relationship history to become more present with others

    • Communication skills

    • Resolving conflict

    • Substance Abuse in a partnership

    • Clarifying roles, beliefs and expectations

    • Anger management

    • Cohabitation and relationship transitions

    • Making joint decisions

    • Appreciate differences, improve flexibility, build empathy

    • Cultivate intimacy

    • Sexual attitudes and behavior

    • Infidelity

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I have been in private practice in Westchester since 2016, working with adolescents and adults individually, as couples, as families, and in groups on a range of topics including trauma, disordered eating, existential crisis/dread and anger management. I also trained in mindfulness, attachment-based therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), health at every size (HAES), and holistic approaches to mental health, and completed the Beck Institute’s course in CBT for Anxiety.

Before going into private practice I was a School Social Worker in a transfer high school for over-aged and under-credited students. I supported older adolescents and young adults utilizing behavioral, CBT, acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), motivational interviewing, solution-focused and client-centered techniques. I helped students address school and vocational stress, substance abuse, identity development, life transitions, interpersonal conflicts and grief.

I was previously trained intensively by the New York Foundling in family therapy techniques including family systems therapy, parent management training, and safety planning. In my role as a therapist I supported families in improving communication, provided psychoeducational tools, encouraged behavior change, empowered parents to establish clear roles and boundaries, strengthened bonds between child and parent and addressed the relationship between parents. As part of a psychiatric team, I learned to identify, document, and report on mental health symptoms in families.

I started my therapy career studying Social Work at Columbia University with a Clinical concentration in Health, Mental Health, and Disabilities. I gained direct practice experience with youth and families throughout New York City in schools, in home visits and at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.