Experience

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from New York University (NYU).  Before receiving my Master's degree, I studied Economics at University of California, Riverside and moved on to work for Capital Group Companies of Los Angeles, CITCO Fund Services in San Francisco and McKinsey & Company in New York.  

​My clinical training in psychodynamic therapy was completed at Washington Square Institute in NYC's Greenwich Village.  I completed field work at the non-profit Lenox Hill Neighborhood House on New York's Upper East Side.  Additionally, I provided therapy to children of incarcerated parents at non-profit Children of Promise in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood.  

While at NYU, I was the lead researcher of a pilot study which discovered and investigated the stigmas in our society associated with loneliness.  My study contributed to an increased focus on loneliness as a contemporary challenge while reducing the stigma about it. 

Post licensure I have completed the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PAPPTP) Fellowship Year through the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. I am currently a member of SFCP and serve on the Board of Trustees. 
 
If you are considering therapy for the first time, or have not found a good match in the past, then please feel free to contact me.  My office phone number is 805.307.7066.