Welcome to my practice website.
I’m a Certified AEDP therapist and embrace the AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) community as my therapeutic home. My ongoing training and growth as an AEDP clinician and AEDP-informed clinical supervisor strengthens my ability to offer deeply relational and experiential emotion-focused guidance to foster healing, growth and change for those with whom I have the honor to work.
I have advanced training in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) for relationships and work well with issues around sexuality, betrayal trauma, loss and change related to life stressors, medical issues and aging. I have also been intensively trained in DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), Mindfulness Based Therapy and EMDR. DBT can offer practical and life-enhancing skills for more effective coping throughout our lives and can be integrated into our work together.
I received a Masters of Social Work (MSW) degree from NYU (New York University) over twenty-five years ago! After working in the mental health field for many years as a therapist, I decided to go back to school to deepen my professional growth and practice, finishing a Doctorate in Clinical Social Work (DSW) from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice (2022).
Covid dramatically shifted the way psychotherapy is offered. So I focused my dissertation on how the therapeutic relationship has been affected by the pandemic and the transition to tele-health practice. “Undoing Aloneness in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How AEDP Clinicians Have Experienced the Shift to Telehealth and the Impact on the Therapeutic Relationship” can be found on the blog section of my website.