I am an integrative psychotherapist, with 30+ years of experience in a variety of addiction and mental health agencies.I received my MSW and PhD from NYU and have continued to engage in ongoing educational trainings/workshops including: trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, CBT, HIV/AIDS,and EMDR to name a few. These trainings have increased my understanding, compassion and awareness of individual's ongoing life struggles.
Therapeutic inquiry begins with the assumption that I know nothing about your life experiences or how you make sense of them. Through inquiry, attunement and involvement we will discover together where you have experienced early traumas or interruptions in relationships and how it has impacted your sense of self. These interruptions can be experienced as depression, anxiety, compulsions, fears or agitation and can interfere with a sense of self and the development of healthy adult relationships.
I offer empathic understanding in the context of honesty and respect with a supportive therapeutic inquiry that provides the safety to drop defenses, to feel, to remember, to experience and to integrate all that you truly are and can become. This is the ongoing process of integrative psychotherapy.
