In my experience, few individuals come to therapy feeling that a diagnosis adequately captures their difficulties, hopes, and fears. Instead, the people I work with sometime describe feeling blocked in their ability to express themselves authentically, preoccupied by past relationships, or confused by partners who have not supplied more. Some individuals may even have difficulty initially finding the right words to describe the things they'd like to change. Finding these words-the right words-to describe what's wrong and what relief would look like is a central part of treatment and not often perfectly clear at the beginning. Finding new, adaptive ways to live is an essential part of treatment with me: self-awareness should be accompanied by improvement in symptoms. I do my best to facilitate a collaborative learning process by which you can discover your own truths and make good use of them. I'm the Director of Mental Health at the NYU SoM WTC Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence and Clinical Instructor at NYU SoM. I'm also the principal investigator of a study regarding the psychotherapeutic treatment of trauma in first responders.
Qualifications: | University of Tennessee |
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Academic Suffixes: | PhD |
Expertise: | Anxiety, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Coping Skills, Depression, Life Transitions, Men |