I'm a clinical social worker who helps adolescents, adults, and families move through anxiety, depression, and emotional regulation, with particular strength in intergenerational conflict, family repair, and working with fathers. My approach draws on psychodynamic, psychoeducational, and cognitive methods, Parent Management Therapy, Parenting with Love and Limits, TEAM-CBT, and ACT.
About me
I help adolescents, adults, and families move through the moments when relationships feel stuck: the arguments that keep repeating, the distance that's crept in, the connection that used to be there and isn't anymore. My focus is less on any single technique, and more on the outcome families actually want — to reconnect, repair what's ruptured, and find a way back to each other.
Before training as a clinical psychotherapist, I spent over 30 years as a Creative Director and Chief Creative Officer at several global advertising corporations, ultimately co-founding my own agency. That path gave me a firsthand understanding of the unique stresses of both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, and continues to shape the grounded, real-world approach I bring to therapy today.
As a psychotherapist, I've worked with clients privately, in residential treatment centers, and in school settings across New York City and Westchester.
My approach
I work with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, and emotional regulation, bringing the same grounded, relationship-centered approach to individual therapy as I do to family work. I draw on a broad clinical toolkit — psychodynamic, psychoeducational, and cognitive approaches; Parent Management Therapy; Parenting with Love and Limits; and more recent training in TEAM-CBT and ACT. But I hold my methods loosely in service of the relationship: I believe the alliance between client and therapist is the single greatest predictor of successful outcomes, and that a client's sense of truly being heard is perhaps the most important part of the work.
Who I work with
I have a particular strength in working with fathers, helping them find their footing both in therapy and in their family relationships. My work comes into sharpest focus in intergenerational conflict, whether it's a parent and child rebuilding trust after a difficult divorce, an aging parent and adult child renegotiating roles and expectations, or in-laws struggling to find common ground. I'm clinically trained in short-term family stabilization interventions, and I've seen firsthand how reworking a family's communication patterns can create lasting behavioral change, what I call "second-order change."
I believe you are never too young or too old to gain the insight necessary to promote well-being. My role is to help you illuminate it.
Outside the therapy room
Outside of my clinical work, I've served my community as a member of the board of education, a youth baseball coach, and a mentor. I currently sit on the board of the JCK Foundation, which promotes mental health resilience in schools, businesses, and communities.
Credentials
- B.A., Johns Hopkins University
- M.S.W., Yeshiva University
- TEAM-CBT Certification
- ACT Training