ABOUT MY PRACTICE
Insight psychotherapy
I have been in practice in Park Slope, Brooklyn, since 2001. It is important to me to create an accepting and warm environment. I want to make it more comfortable for you to tell me about yourself, both your unique qualities and your difficult issues and painful feelings. I strive for a deep, multi-layered, complex understanding of each patient's way of being. This, to me, is the basis of the psychoanalytic approach I am trained in. Psychotherapy promotes insight into feelings and behavior. Through the work you and I do together, these insights become the basis for change and healing.
I find my work as a therapist deeply meaningful because of the mutual connection my patients and I feel in our work. I hold an MSW and I have been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of New York for over 20 years. In addition, I completed a three year postgraduate training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies program in Comprehensive Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, with a specialization in Children and Adolescents. I have been practicing insight meditation regularly since 1984 (except when my children were very young!), and bring the knowledge and mindfulness gleaned from that process to my work as a therapist. I am affirming of all sexual orientations and gender identities, anti-racist, and feminist.
If you are considering psychotherapy, give me a call for a free initial phone conversation. I will ask you to tell me about what you are looking for and why, and we can discuss next steps.
My office is conveniently located in Park Slope.
Please see below and the appropriate page for more information about my practice.
I find my work as a therapist deeply meaningful because of the mutual connection my patients and I feel in our work. I hold an MSW and I have been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of New York for over 20 years. In addition, I completed a three year postgraduate training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies program in Comprehensive Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, with a specialization in Children and Adolescents. I have been practicing insight meditation regularly since 1984 (except when my children were very young!), and bring the knowledge and mindfulness gleaned from that process to my work as a therapist. I am affirming of all sexual orientations and gender identities, anti-racist, and feminist.
If you are considering psychotherapy, give me a call for a free initial phone conversation. I will ask you to tell me about what you are looking for and why, and we can discuss next steps.
My office is conveniently located in Park Slope.
Please see below and the appropriate page for more information about my practice.
OUR WORK together
Psychotherapy is an open door, an opportunity. The process develops your ability to comfort yourself and to feel more at home, both in your own skin and out there in this sometimes confusing, difficult and painful world. When we can make sense of our days, we can live them with more clarity, love and meaning, and less fear, anger and pain.
Our work takes place within the support of the therapist-patient relationship. Together, you and I use our mutual communication to explore the thoughts and feelings which come to light. This process leads to insight into your difficulties, and this insight becomes the basis for change. As a therapist, I offer comments that deepen reflection and encourage shifts in understanding and perspective, leading to healing.
Psychotherapy is a reflective, collaborative process. Reflective because the process of talking aloud to a therapist helps you to hear your own thoughts and feelings through a new lens, allowing you to grow in understanding and in your ability to tolerate difficult emotions. Collaborative because my role as a therapist is to be present to you in the moment, to guide you, and to lend a hand as you reach for
new ways of being.
Our work takes place within the support of the therapist-patient relationship. Together, you and I use our mutual communication to explore the thoughts and feelings which come to light. This process leads to insight into your difficulties, and this insight becomes the basis for change. As a therapist, I offer comments that deepen reflection and encourage shifts in understanding and perspective, leading to healing.
Psychotherapy is a reflective, collaborative process. Reflective because the process of talking aloud to a therapist helps you to hear your own thoughts and feelings through a new lens, allowing you to grow in understanding and in your ability to tolerate difficult emotions. Collaborative because my role as a therapist is to be present to you in the moment, to guide you, and to lend a hand as you reach for
new ways of being.
