I lived in New York City and worked there for 25 years. I began a private practice in psychotherapy in 1983 when I first got licensed as a masters level social worker. I finished my Ph.D. in Social Work at Fordham University in 1989 with a focus on children and families. In 2003 I moved to live in the artists' village of Ein Hod, Israel where I currently reside and practice. I also maintain a practice in Tel Aviv and teach as an adjunct at Lesley University in their Art Therapy Masters branch in Israel. I have provided psychotherapy to the 'working well' in my private clinic in New York, and prior to this worked five years at New York Medical College's Center for Comprehensive Health where I did research on HIV and risk behavior with heroin addicts in a methadone-to-abstinence program in E. Harlem, NY. During my masters program and afterward, I worked with refugees from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, in Thai refugee camps for the UNHCR and then later in New York City with the same resettled populations.

Major influences:

I studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy with Dominick Riccio, Ph.D. in New York and was supervised both in a group and individually by him for 6 years. I learned short-term therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in my year and a half tenure at Human Affairs International in New York, a company which provided employee assistance services to corporate employees and their families. From 1993 nearly to the present, I have travelled to India most winters where I was influenced by a number of teachers such as Osho, Poonja, Dolano, Ramana Maharshi, Ramesh Balsekar, and Nisargadatta Maharaj. I also enjoy using 'The Work' by Byron Katie, Narrative Therapy, and Reality Therapy. I have a B.A. in English literature and did a lot of experimental theater while at St. Lawrence University and so I have drama therapy techniques in my work as well. I am especially fond of Jacques La Coq's neutral mask method. And I have integrated this with my spiritual and therapeutic recognitions. Paradoxically, we put on a mask to shed the masks of the day to day allowing our body authentic expression.

I am on my own journey and so what I share with you are things that I know from the inside out since I have tried them on myself. I've been through my own difficulties and crises as we all have, or in short we're in this together and I will help you to the greatest extent my being and knowledge allow. And, of course, existence may bring us together and we just might have an influence on one another, and, perhaps in the moment of our meeting or sometime later we will each in our own way come to appreciate the significance our dialogue had on the course of our lives.