Therapeutic Work Involves Intutive Listening

This comprehensive listening process includes absorbing not only the words a person is speaking but also what they are communicating without words. Listening in this way helps in understanding a person’s experience more completely, increasing the possibility that the therapeutic work will be helpful. By carefully looking at what is communicated in sessions an individual can come to know themselves deeply. This increased self-knowledge can lead to freedom from self-limiting thoughts and convictions and to greater mental clarity. At the end of a successful treatment people sometimes report an increase in energy and a feeling of ease and lightness.

While in therapy a person may discuss difficult experiences and painful feelings. It is necessary to maintain an atmosphere of privacy and confidentiality to help someone speak with candor.

My Specialties

As both a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, I have worked with those who are struggling with:

Eating Disorders

Family Problems

Parenting Problems

Relationship Issues

Character Disorders

Anxiety

Depression

Stress

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Illness

Death or loss

Abuse

Trauma

My Background

I am a licensed independent clinical social worker with additional training and certification in psychoanalysis. I have worked with individual adults, couples, and older adolescents in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for thirty five years.

My professional experience includes clinical work at The Children’s Hospital and MGHBrigham in Boston, MA. I am on the faculty and a supervisor at The Fellowship and Advanced Training Programs at The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Newton Centre, MA. I am an Adjunct Faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Professional Affiliations