I believe that everyone has a unique story…

I believe that everyone has a unique story… sometimes we need someone to be completely and fully with us – to be free of feeling judged or doubted in any way.

Through our therapeutic relationship, you may discover how you really feel and be free to come into your own to live an authentic and fulfilling life. One is often unaware of the connections to one’s past, and therapy can help you to become attuned to your body-mind and manage what has happened to free yourself to be You. I am a licensed psychologist and a psychotherapist with a main office in Clinton (Hunterdon County), New Jersey and a second office in Skillman (Somerset County), New Jersey.

My Qualifications

A little about myself…

I earned a Psy.D. in Psychology from New York University, and I am a licensed Psychologist in New Jersey (#3498). In addition, I earned Master’s degrees in Education and Special Education earlier in my career. My original focus was infant development and attachment. Earlier in my clinical work, I focused on children, adolescents, and families. Now, more than twenty-five years later, my clinical focus is on treatment with adults. My interest in the influence of early attachment relationships with caregivers has remained strong and informs my work with adults. I have also followed the advances in neuroscience, trauma, affect regulation, infant emotional development, and attachment theory. Recently, I have been integrating body-centered mindfulness with psychodynamic talk therapy.

My Approach

I bring warmth, openness, empathy, intelligent understanding, and a non-judgmental, down-to-earth approach to therapy. Through a relationship in which your experiences are validated and understood, I will help you tap into your innate strength and break the shackles of prior negative, self-defining experiences.

You will have the opportunity to change your life and truly free yourself of ways that may have overwhelmed you and held you captive. In an interactive and responsive therapeutic relationship, we cannot predict precisely who will emerge: A strengthened person, free of disruptive influences from past trauma, a person who can have improved relationships and a stronger, well-balanced sense of self. Sometimes emotions and experiences are stored as sensations in the body and remain out of one’s awareness. In an interactive and responsive therapeutic relationship, I can help your body-mind communications to perhaps free you of negative patterns, beliefs, and disruptive influences from the past. Ultimately, the best way for you to determine if you want to be in therapy with me is for us to meet to see how you feel about taking this journey together and what the ‘fit’ might be.

How I Help My Clients

Clients have acknowledged me for my kindness and ability to help them face things they couldn’t have without my presence.

I have been able to help others navigate their path and feel better prepared to manage if they go off course.

Individuals have felt to be changed people with unimaginably improved relationships with their family members, including their children.

People that I have worked with have acknowledged me as part of their healing process that they continue even after they leave treatment with me.

Some individuals have felt freer and less weighed down simply by acknowledging the effect their past has on their present.

I have been thanked and appreciated for my calm and patient manner and thoughtful analytic skills and insights that have helped clients to map things out and make sense of themselves.

My Services

I offer individual psychotherapy to adults and older teens who are committed to making a real change and are interested in making a connecting with a reliable therapist either in person or online.

My Areas

You may find yourself constantly feeling down, depressed, hopeless, or anxious. Perhaps you have lost one or more people who you have loved and depended on. The broad spectrum of issues and reasons that individuals seek help include shyness, being socially awkward and self-conscious, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, grief, and chronic illness. Rather than pigeonhole or isolate problems and focus on diagnoses, I focus on the whole person’s subjective experience and find ways to nurture emotional growth.

Shame and self-doubt
Anxiety
Self-esteem
Overachieving
People pleasing
Depression
Perfectionism

Distraction/attention challenges
Fatigue
“Small ‘t’” trauma
Difficult parent and family relationships
Relationship challenges
Loneliness
Recovery from pandemic loss, isolation and change