With a legitimate desire to experience your emotions, reveal your thoughts, and admit the consequences of your actions, you have all you need to achieve your therapeutic goals of change and healing. Emotional containment/expression, spontaneity, intellectual clarity, and behavior change are basic to of human nature. A subtle shift in one element can have profound consequences in restoring emotional equilibrium and improving quality of life I bring keen intuition and 40 years' treatment experience to guide you.

I am a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in practice over 25 years. My clinical work is with adolescents, adults and couples. Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis can be powerful tools to a happier and more fulfilled life as you increase self-awareness and reduce potentially self defeating patterns. Many of the barriers to happiness and success can be out of awareness yet exert a powerful role on our behaviors and feelings. I can work with you to address your unique goals.

I enjoy helping people struggling with psychological and emotional problems to succeed in managing these issues in empowered and effective ways. I work with people individually, as families, or in the couple’s context. I take pleasure in creating a safe, supportive space for patients to address and work through their problems. My specialization in DBT and CBT allows me to offer a variety of skills and tools including mindfulness to address issues such as anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, eating disorders, and trauma. I am fluent in both Spanish and English and am experienced in addressing concerns of Latino clients.

You've already succeeded, you took the first step, you reached out to find solutions to the unsettling emotions/ issues you've been experiencing. As a Marriage/Family therapist and trauma specialist, I work with you collaboratively, advocating and supporting you to strengthen your voice and become more assertive in your life. I often work with clients that feel stuck, helping them create a life that is vibrant and alive. Imagine being present without needing to numb the pain when triggers or challenges arise. Let me guide you whether as an individual a couple or family.

You deserve to finally get the help that you need. In my practice, I focus on strength, not stigma, and treating mental health just as we would treat the physical body. Throughout my training, I have experienced the benefit of blending clinical, holistic, and creative aspects in treatment. Many of my clients have experienced a sense of relief and freedom as I guide them toward learning coping skills and help them release shame from their past. Whether it’s coping with trauma or helping your child perform better in school, I can help you develop the tools to thrive, not merely survive.

As a psychologist with over a decade of experience practicing in New York and Miami I focus on helping individuals and couples to thrive following difficult life experiences. Often times, our current or past difficulties get in the way of being our best selves. My clients come to understand what behaviors and relationships are hindering them, and develop the essential skills and self-awareness needed to lead lives with more joy. I’m known for my collaborative and solution-focused approach to help my clients.

I like to work with people who are motivated to make the changes in their lives to achieve happiness and feelings of well being. Happiness requires a good work-life balance, good self esteem and unconditional positive self regard. For some, this is not easily attained and my goal is to help folks get there.

You are a worthy and valuable individual that has the all answers, strength and courage to overcome anything and live a phenomenal life. Everyone has the ability to heal from the deepest of wounds and the most challenging of circumstances. Sometimes the only thing that stands in the way of healing is fear. I'm here to lovingly help you walk through your uncertainty, support you in developing strategies for coping with stress, anxiety, releasing self doubt, setting up healthy boundaries, increasing self-esteem and self worth. When you develop a learning orientation to life you can see most issues as blessings.

My experience of 30 years of clinical practice has encompassed a wide range of issues and clients, including Narcissistic Personality; Gottman-trained, goal-oriented marital therapy; divorce mediation and co-parenting; multi-modal treatment of OCD and other anxiety-related disorders; substance abuse and behavior addictions, including sex, gambling, spending, and internet addictions; Adult and adolescent ADD; and trauma, and trauma-related phobias. With 25 years of intensive training and experience as an EMDR clinician and consultant, I use EMDR extensively, and use it to achieve timely and effective achievement of clients' goals.

I recognize how difficult it can be to ask for help. I also firmly believe that this is the most critical first step in the healing and change process. I provide psychotherapy services for adult individuals and couples in a professional, collaborative and confidential environment. Call today and let me help you cultivate greater mental, emotional and spiritual health in your personal life, relationships and the workplace.

Life's challenges and transitions can feel overwhelming. I work to create a safe environment for my clients in which they can talk about their feelings, vulnerabilities and goals. I believe the first step towards feeling better is connection, and that trust, empathy and validation of one's personal experience are essential qualities of a therapeutic relationship. I rely upon my years of experience as a clinical psychologist to help my clients challenge their limiting beliefs, and to empower them to live authentically in greater alignment with their interests, strengths and passions.

I have over thirty years of experience working with individuals, couples and families who are seeking a healthier emotional life. The primary focus of my interventions include improving communication, reducing anxiety, and depressive feelings, as well as overcoming the challenges and symptoms associated with mental health disorders.

I approach each client as their own unique self and tackle the presenting questions & issues together with the client. The therapeutic experience can be very daunting and challenging, yet at the same time it offers such wonderful benefits to live a life of wellness and happiness. I feel that the therapeutic experience doesn't just end with the session. I believe the therapy is aimed at bringing that knowledge into your very way of living and your interpersonal relationships. I offer office or a skype online option for sessions. I have work with adults, children, adolescent teens, new mothers & couples.

Through working both in public and private school settings, my focus has consistently been geared towards conducting comprehensive psycho-educational assessments, providing recommendations, and assisting in designing individualized interventions with children, adolescents, and young adults. The comprehensive evaluation process involves assessment of cognitive, academic, processing, and socio-emotional functioning to assist in educational planning for individuals presenting with concerns, such as learning disabilities, intellectual deficiencies, giftedness, attention deficit disorder, and autistic spectrum disorder.

I am a licensed psychologist with extensive training and experience in the treatment of adults, children and families. As part of the South FL DBT Consortium, my group practice is a Linehan Board Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program and provides individual and group therapy to children, adolescents, adults and parents. My credentials include a doctoral degree from Rutgers University and two masters degrees in psychology from Columbia University. I also have specialized post doctoral training in the treatment of children, families, and couples.

I believe in the power of therapy. The connection between the client and the therapist is essential for change. As a therapist I am not here to tell you what to do, but to guide you and to show different ways for you to get where you want to be. Often when we listen from people outside our comfort zone things start making more sense.

I believe that therapy offers a unique opportunity for intensive emotional and intellectual growth so that one can be better equipped to lead a more productive and fulfilling life. Within the context of a respectful, empathic, safe, and warm relationship, an individual can begin to consider one's life from a different point of view by attaching new meaning to his/her past, exploring new avenues for reaching life goals, and decreasing painful feelings such as sadness and anxiety through self-acceptance and an increased ability to cope with life's stressors.

If you're anxious, depressed or overwhelmed and repeating distressing, limiting thoughts and behaviors, I can probably help. Living with painful emotions and addiction is as agonizing as living with a challenging physical illness. But have hope. When you have a physical illness, what's the first thing you do? Go to the doctor. If you're suffering from mental illness, seek relief and find a good mental health professional. Depression, anxiety, and addiction are mental illnesses. They require psychological and psychiatric help.

With over a decade of experience in mental health counseling, I provide individual and family therapy for an array of mental health disorders, including but not limited to, anxiety, depression, OCD, family conflict and abuse, as well as eating disorders, peer conflict, and parenting issues. I bring an eclectic and thoughtful psychodynamic therapeutic approach to my practice, which includes a combination of orthodox and creative therapies. With the knowledge that no two clients are alike, I employ different therapies depending on each circumstance. I work with adults, children, and families.