Welcome! I am a New York State licensed clinical psychologist helping individuals overcome emotional distress and and increase overall well-being. Throughout life, most of us encounter obstacles that undermine growth and contribute to stress and unhappiness. I work with people who want to understand the connection between past experiences and patterns in their current lives to find greater fulfillment in their relationships, careers, or personal endeavors. My work focuses on unhelpful habits, building new coping skills, emotion regulation techniques, and facilitating new thought patterns. My approach is collaborative, warm, engaging, and goal-oriented. I use an integrative approach to tailor treatment to meet individual needs. My approach uses the frameworks of dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic and family systems perspectives.

For more than a decade, I’ve worked in a variety of clinical settings that include hospital outpatient departments, university student health centers, college counseling campuses, and mental health clinics. I have experience treating individuals and couples with anxiety, depression, life transitions, eating recovery issues, intrusive and obsessive thoughts, phobias, relationship issues, pregnancy and post-partum mental health, and academic challenges for college, graduate, medical students and residents, and more. In the past I have also enjoyed running DBT groups, teaching graduate classes at University at Albany, conducting bariatric psych evals, and working on research projects with fellow colleagues.

EDUCATION:

University at Albany Ph.D. 2013

NYS License: 020663