ABOUT

I am a clinical psychologist, licensed in New York and Israel, with experience treating adults, couples, and families. I have developed my clinical expertise through working in a wide variety of settings ranging from psychiatric hospitals, major medical centers, mental health clinics, veteran’s hospitals, and college counseling centers. As a psychologist with vast research experience, including a Fulbright fellowship, I draw from research to best treat my clients. My therapeutic approach is first and foremost empathic, compassionate, and genuine. I strive to foster a warm, supportive, and judgement-free environment to help my clients reflect on their struggles and bring about change. Feeling respected, safe, and understood in treatment is necessary to begin the journey, and I aspire to create that space for each client. I view each client holistically, helping to identify areas of difficulty and helping them to access strengths. I believe that it is important to assess the ways in which worries, stressors, or symptoms affect functioning at work, school, home, physical health, and relationships. I strive to help my clients bolster internal strengths and help access their resiliency to cope with the challenges they face.  My therapeutic style is integrative, working collaboratively with my clients to tailor and incorporate treatment approaches to their specific needs and goals.

In therapy, I find it valuable to explore the early roots of my client’s difficulties and stressors and think together about the ways these earlier experiences have affected their development of self, their current struggles, and their relationships. I also help my clients recognize behavior and thought patterns that interfere with everyday life, and ways in which they can learn skills to cope with and help manage stressors. I work with individuals and couples facing a multitude of life difficulties including depression, grief/loss, anxiety, life transitions, adjustment to medical problems, acculturation struggles, stress management, relationship difficulty, self-esteem issues, marital/premarital counseling, and family conflict. I have a special interest in trauma and posttraumatic growth, helping traumatized individuals move forward and grow from their experiences while managing lingering distress. I am also dedicated to working with veterans and their families, having treated veterans on PTSD residential units, substance use programs, and outpatient PTSD clinics. If you would like to talk more about how we could work together, I welcome you to contact me for a consultation.