80 University Place, 3E

New York, NY 10003

(Greenwich Village)

Yes, we can meet in person at my office or virtually. We’ll discuss together if you prefer one or the other, or a combination of both. Virtual sessions are only available for folks in New York and Florida.

No, I’m an Out of Network provider with all insurance plans. This means you will pay out of pocket for our sessions. I can prepare a superbill for you to submit to your insurance carrier for reimbursement at the carrier’s discretion. I can also help you figure out if you have OON benefits, and how much they might reimburse you.

A Psychologist can be a therapist, but a therapist is not necessarily a Psychologist. The primary difference is education and training. Between my 5 year doctoral program and 1 year Postdoctoral Fellowship I performed well over 4,000 hours of direct clinical practice (therapy) in addition to all my coursework, hours receiving training and supervision, and my dissertation research. I know some lovely and amazingly talented master’s-level therapists (and some shitty psychologists) but if you’re going to trust a stranger with this much, you can at least know a psychologist has ample experience and training. Ultimately a therapy relationship is incredibly personal, so the right therapist for you is all about “fit.” I encourage you to speak with a few therapists when looking for someone new, and to trust your gut about who you believe will help you the most.

Then I’m not the therapist for you right now. The central focus of my approach is relational. The therapeutic relationship — the trust, safety, support, challenge, conflict, exploration, comfort, care — is the tool I use to help you grow. It’s too difficult to develop that kind of relationship if we meet less frequently. Once that relationship is established, less frequent sessions can be helpful.

I do reserve some space in my caseload for sliding scale patients based on financial need, on an individual basis. During our consultation call, we can discuss this.

The main tools I use in therapy include:

Relational Psychodynamic Theory: Also known as dynamic/analytic theory, this is about patterns of being in relationships — including all the different types of relationships in your life from your parents to your spouse to our therapist-patient relationship. Attachment theory fits in here. 

Trauma-Informed Therapy: This is what my dissertation research was about. Both “Big T” traumas (life threatening events, assaults, abuse, etc.) and “little t” traumas (painful relational stressors) can impact the way we think about and experience the world, other people, and our sense of self. We learn various ways to survive and protect ourselves from these wounds and can often get stuck in these patterns, sometimes without realizing it. Trauma-informed therapy helps us get closer to these old hurts and resulting protective patterns in a way that increases your felt sense of safety, gives you more control over your protective patterns, and opens up more spontaneous possibilities for living. 

Somatic Therapy: Soma means “body” and Somatic Therapy is that which includes the body, along with the mind, as we're looking at ourselves and our lives. Emotions are felt in the body and can be incredible tools for insight and intuition when we work with them, instead of ignoring or fighting or being flooded by them. We'll help you regulate your emotions so that you can tolerate being with them, identify the subtlety of them when you’re not particularly attuned, and tap into that beautifully quick, responsive, insightful, spontaneous, motivating gut-instinct that most of us have been taught to devalue and demonize. We’ll help you make active change in your life by enabling your feelings to get your body moving.

Mindful Self-Compassion: This practice comes from Buddhism and Buddhist Psychology. We spend our entire lives attuning to the object of the mind — all that content floating around in our heads. This approach gets us looking at the processes of the mind. How is your mind operating? What are its patterns? What's going on in the body while the mind is doing its thing? How much of that is focused where our feet are, versus out somewhere else in space and time. My job is to keep you curious and kind, not analytical and critical, while we explore all this together.