In trying to select a therapist, I do not believe it is helpful to list every course I have ever taught, every lecture I have given, or every article I have ever written. If you feel knowing my credentials would be reassuring, they are as follows:

I attended the Bronx High School of Science, and went on to receive a B.A. from the University of Chicago, with specials honors in psychology. After a year of research at the Rockefeller Institute,I received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1975. This degree was awarded from the Ferkauf Graduate School, Yeshiva University, which is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1977, I received my New York State License in Psychology. In 1981,I received my Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from the William Alanson White Institute.

Since that time, I have been in full time private practice. I also have simultaneously taught at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and the William Alanson White Institute.  In 2004, I became the Director of the Sexual Abuse Service at the William Alanson White Institute. In 2007, I was appointed a Supervising Analyst.

I consider my expertise to be “clinical” listening, and over the course of 25 years, I have worked in depth with many kinds of patients. I dislike the whole notion of putting people into categories . Most of my referrals come from my own previous patients, from colleagues, and from medical doctors. I believe the capacity for empathy and attunement is the salient issue in determining outcome. During our initial consultation, you will have the opportunity to assess for yourself whether you feel understood.

Sometimes the body speaks first, presenting with symptoms that may register in physical ways, but are simultaneously communications about unformulated emotional pain. Examples may be chronic fatigue, insomnia, agitation, disorders of appetite or sleep, sexual compulsions, tearfulness, or a range of physical pains that do not conform easily with known medical syndromes. While some patients are referred to me with issues such as these; others seek out help for depression, fears, loneliness, low self-esteem, and conflicts in relationships.

I work primarily with adults, but also see adolescents, and male-female or same-sex couples. I also see parents in connection with developing parenting skills.

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