Education & Training
I earned my Master’s of Social Work (M.S.W.) from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and my Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. I completed advanced training in relational psychoanalysis at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), a progressive psychoanalytic training institute in New York.
Being a life-long student, I’ve continued my training in trauma-informed treatments: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Internal Family Systems.
Service in the Field
In addition to my practice seeing private clients and supervisees, I contribute to the field by supervising therapists in advanced training at NIP, where I also serve as faculty, training analyst, and advisor. I was an early co-founder of NIP’s one-year post-master’s program in child and adolescent treatment.
In 2021, I retired as a tenured Associate Professor of Child and Family Services at SUNY Empire State College, after 19 years of college teaching there and at Silberman School of Social Work. I have led trauma-informed clinical case seminars in the Post-Masters Clinical Social Work Program at Silberman. I have also presented widely at professional conferences here in the U.S. and abroad on the ways parents can support their children in healing from trauma.
In the community, I long served on the advisory board of Little Sisters of the Assumption, a home visiting program for new mothers in East Harlem. I also offered professional support to the Child Welfare Organizing Project, a NYC self-help group of parents affected by the child welfare system. I am currently facilitating a child mental health group at Mixteca, an immigrant rights group in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Starting in 2019, I served as a Fulbright Scholar consulting with university social work faculty in Vietnam on mental health and trauma. I then served for three years on the Fulbright Peer Review Committee to select future Fulbright Scholars. This service gave me a broader view of innovative social work approaches in use internationally.