I am only seeing patients by videoconference.

As a therapist who has been in clinical practice for 37 years I bring experience and deep training to my practice alongside an abiding commitment to thoughtful, engaged collaboration with my patients.   What I most strive for is to understand my patients deeply, and for them to feel listened to and responded to with compassion and intelligence.    I believe that the therapeutic conversation is powerful and transforms lives, allowing people to find meaning through an authentic connection to themselves and another.   

My work is psychoanalytic, which means I attend to feelings/beliefs that emerge from lived experience/history and that interfere with being able to live fully, creatively, and freely in the present.  In my experience,  psychotherapy at its best occurs within an intimate and private space in which you are heard, understood, and responded to honestly and directly.  I work humanistically and outside the medical model.  

I've been doing psychotherapy with adolescents, adults, couples, and families since 1986. I did my PhD at Smith College and my MSW at Loyola University of Chicago.  I am a longstanding (28 years) faculty member of the Institute for Clinical Social Work (Chicago), where I teach advanced clinical seminars to PhD students and provide depth-oriented treatment consultation.  I am published in the areas of child trauma, urban violence, and social critique. I provide ongoing consultation to therapists across the country.