My Approach to Helping
It takes courage to change - to look at what is driving self neglect, sabotage, anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Externally appearing successful, but deep inside, feeling like an imposter - "if only they knew how I feel".
I act as a co-piolet and collaborator to help you become empowered to get to where you want to be professionally, in relationships, and in self care. Negative experiences in relationships, current and past have a way of showing up again, and again. I help you unable that web so you don't keep repeating it. so that you can move forward to begin to live an empowered fulfilling life. I help you get to the other side of feeling "I am not worthwhile", I am "unloveable".
In addition to working individually, I am a group psychotherapist and have over 30 years of experience treating college aged young adults and adults with anxiety, depression, histories of trauma - present and past, self neglect and sabotage are central to my work. I have several sub specialties - weight regulation - eating disorders; women's health issues; couples issues.
More Info About My Practice
I am trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, informed by psychoanalytic thinking - I am also trained in CBT, Sensorimotor trauma work. I have a dual appointment as Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC. I am also the Sr. Psychotherapy Consultant to the New York Obesity Research Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in affiliation with Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, and Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan. I am not on any insurance panels, but my services for outpatient psychotherapy can be covered through your insurance out-of network benefits . Contact your insurance company if you are uncertain whether your plan has out-of-network benefits. . I will provide you with the needed paperwork for you to get reimbursed.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
Having worked with eating and body image disorders,relationship issues, marriage and divorce, and the particular problems of high-pressure careers of executives, professionals, and academics, I have learned that emotional distress of many kinds responds to in-depth exploration combined with a focus on results; that confidence and positive thinking are necessary for any improvement in mood or life situation, and that these are not only a matter of temperament but can be learned and practiced. I work best with people who believe they can and will get better; people who know that, underneath or alongside their feelings of inadequacy, they have a profound inner strength.
