My Approach to Helping
My therapeutic style is warm, friendly, supportive, compassionate and competent. Psychotherapy is tailored to the specific needs of the client as they evolve in a collaborative relationship. I'm board certified by the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. My background and training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, teaching, and supervising psychotherapy is varied and extensive. I specialize in; general psychotherapy of personality problems, phobias and anxiety states, relationship loss trauma and stress, spinal, sports, dance, cardiac, neurological injury and surgical stress, adult and adolescent creative work blocks, self esteem, and academic problems, parent-adolescent communication problems, pet loss therapy, cognitive behavior therapy failures, supervision of psychotherapy from multi-model analytic approaches. Analytic institute faculty, training analyst, supervisor.