About Me
I am a New York State Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years experience treating children, adolescents and adults. During this time, I have helped people from diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds with a wide range of challenges. My specialties include short term treatment of clinically significant depression and anxiety disorders, and I enjoy helping people adjust and thrive in response to major life transitions, including issues relating to adolescence, young adulthood and parenthood.
In my undergraduate studies, I majored in Psychology and Sociology and minored in Gender Studies. I obtained a Master's in General Psychology with a Research concentration from New School University before earning my doctoral degree at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. During my doctoral training, my clinical practice with adults, adolescents, children and families was directly supervised by seasoned licensed psychologists in a range of settings including a college counseling center, a community mental health center, a public City hospital, and Beth Israel Medical Center. I completed my one-year APA-accredited internship at Kings County Hospital Center where I received advanced clinical training with adolescents, adults and families as well as specialized training in the short-term (Cognitive-Behavioral; CBT) treatment of anxiety disorders at SUNY Downstate Medical Center's Anxiety Disorders Clinic. After earning my PhD, I completed my first post-doctoral year in an advanced training and research program at NorthShore-LIJ, part of the Northwell Health System.
I believe continuing education is a prerequisite for good treatment and am always working to keep current with new research and best-practices. In 2013, as part of my continued studies, I gained intensive training in Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complicated (prolonged) grief at the University of Pennsylvania from world-renowned psychologist, Edna B. Foa, Ph.D. In 2022, I furthered my training treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder learning additional techniques in Exposure and Response Prevention, developed and researched over the past decade.
In addition to my work in private practice, I served as a Senior Supervising Psychologist for New York City's Health and Hospitals where I provided direct clinical care to children and adults in public hospitals in Brooklyn and the Bronx, co-directed a doctoral-level training program and lead a multidisciplinary team bringing individualized psychological interventions to psychiatric inpatient units. I also supervised other licensed clinical psychologists and mental health trainees from programs in social work (LMSWs), psychiatry (MDs) and psychology (MAs in PhD and PsyD programs). In 2018, I left the public hospitals to expand my private practice.
I believe balance is central to a healthy mind and body, which informs my career, my practice and my personal life. I live with my family in Brooklyn.
In my undergraduate studies, I majored in Psychology and Sociology and minored in Gender Studies. I obtained a Master's in General Psychology with a Research concentration from New School University before earning my doctoral degree at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. During my doctoral training, my clinical practice with adults, adolescents, children and families was directly supervised by seasoned licensed psychologists in a range of settings including a college counseling center, a community mental health center, a public City hospital, and Beth Israel Medical Center. I completed my one-year APA-accredited internship at Kings County Hospital Center where I received advanced clinical training with adolescents, adults and families as well as specialized training in the short-term (Cognitive-Behavioral; CBT) treatment of anxiety disorders at SUNY Downstate Medical Center's Anxiety Disorders Clinic. After earning my PhD, I completed my first post-doctoral year in an advanced training and research program at NorthShore-LIJ, part of the Northwell Health System.
I believe continuing education is a prerequisite for good treatment and am always working to keep current with new research and best-practices. In 2013, as part of my continued studies, I gained intensive training in Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complicated (prolonged) grief at the University of Pennsylvania from world-renowned psychologist, Edna B. Foa, Ph.D. In 2022, I furthered my training treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder learning additional techniques in Exposure and Response Prevention, developed and researched over the past decade.
In addition to my work in private practice, I served as a Senior Supervising Psychologist for New York City's Health and Hospitals where I provided direct clinical care to children and adults in public hospitals in Brooklyn and the Bronx, co-directed a doctoral-level training program and lead a multidisciplinary team bringing individualized psychological interventions to psychiatric inpatient units. I also supervised other licensed clinical psychologists and mental health trainees from programs in social work (LMSWs), psychiatry (MDs) and psychology (MAs in PhD and PsyD programs). In 2018, I left the public hospitals to expand my private practice.
I believe balance is central to a healthy mind and body, which informs my career, my practice and my personal life. I live with my family in Brooklyn.