Years ago I worked in clinics and hospitals, and found that I could really reach people who suffered from agonizing obsessive thoughts and compulsions. The people I came in contact with were sensitive and kind. They just got in their own way and the quality of their life was severely limited. These people knew that what they were doing was irrational, yet they couldn't stop. Having some experience with irrational thoughts and with wasting precious time, I began to study and then implement a strategy to help people say "screw it” (it became a mantra of sorts). They’d declare: ”I want to live, life is too short." It's gratifying, very, to help people laugh at themselves and move on in life -- to create, to love, to work, and to have fun.

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I have advanced psychoanalytic training. As I began to explore the study of mind/psyche, I went deeper in my own personal treatment; and in turn, I decided to learn the art of psychoanalysis. At first I studied at Freudian institutes, and then moved on to more relational institutes, such as the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Study for Subjectivity (IPPS).

I am a psychotherapist who works both behaviorally and analytically in treating people who suffer from obsessions, compulsions, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues, and more. I have been doing this for 20 years now. I have run clinics and supervised many junior clinicians and was the chief clinician at a woman’s shelter in the Bronx. I am also an artist and an athlete. I am a New Yorker, but have lived in various states and in Europe.

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