I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Board Certified Art Therapist with over 29 years of clinical work.

I began my career as a clinician at a homeless shelter in East New York Brooklyn in 1996 where I worked with women and families with substance use and co-occurring disorders as they transitioned into permanent housing. From there, I directed the Expressive Therapy Programs for both Housing Works in the East Village of Manhattan and Harlem United day treatment programs for people living with HIV/AIDS. I also served as Clinical Director of Detox Services at North General Hospital in Harlem, and clinician at St. Vincent’s Behavioral Health Inpatient facility in Manhattan before it closed its doors. Before moving to the area, I worked in private practice in Hoboken and later at Monmouth Medical Center’s Inpatient Behavioral Health Hospital. Currently, I operate my own practice in Shrewsbury, NJ.

The dissolution of protective walls or barriers (addictions, compulsive behaviors, thoughts), often driven by trauma and resulting fear, occurs through the building of trust and relationship. This is both the foundation and thrust of my work. There is no perfect formula or approach to healing and self-awareness, but there is the universality of human love, compassion and the desire for true connection. Trauma, as it is perceived, exists across a gigantic spectrum. One person’s pain and experience cannot be measured against the pain of another. To be WITH another in this trusted space, to witness and to help facilitate any form of recovery of the authentic self within that space, is the great privilege and beauty of this work– no matter where one is on the journey. We’re in it together.