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 at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), a progressive psychoanalytic training institute in New York.
Being a life-long student, I’ve continued 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 seeing private clients and supervisees online and in my Chelsea office, I supervise therapists in advanced training at NIP, where I also serve as faculty, training analyst and advisor. I was a co-founder of NIP’s one-year post-master’s program in child and adolescent treatment.
I have recently 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 and abroad on supporting parents in their children’s 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. And I offered professional support to a NYC self-help group of parents affected by the child welfare system, the Child Welfare Organizing Project.
In recent years I have served as a Fulbright Scholar teaching students and consulting with university 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.