ABOUT ME
I graduated from McGill University and earned my Master's and Doctoral degrees from New York University. I trained as an extern at Goldwater Memorial Hospital (in rehabilitation psychology and group psychotherapy), at SUNY Downstate (inpatient psychiatry, outpatient psychotherapy, psychological testing and group psychotherapy), at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (outpatient psychotherapy and psychological testing), at the New York VA Hospital (neuropsychological testing), and then interned at North Central Bronx Hospital. I was trained intensively in the assessment and treatment of addictions and in group psychotherapy while I was working as a staff psychologist in an innovative addictions program at Jacobi Medical Center. For a time, I was the Program Coordinator of the Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Center, also at Jacobi, where I redesigned the program from the ground up and helped earn the program a full accreditation upon state audit. As the head of the Jacobi Psychological Testing Committee, I coordinated assessment services for the medical center, created workshops and seminars, and provided supervision to interns and consultation to staff psychologists on difficult testing cases.
In addition to maintaining a private practice, I have also served as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Addictions Division at Beth Israel Medical Center, where I supervised and coordinated the addictions training experience for psychology interns, and as Clinical Supervisor of Psychological Assessment in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
I have also been published in scholarly journals (Theory & Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology) and have presented papers on philosophical issues in clinical theory and practice and on defense mechanisms in interpersonal relationships.