About me

I am a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in New York City and have been practicing for over a decade.

I completed a certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, where I am also on faculty. And I’m currently a candidate in the Trauma Studies program at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Additional past professional experience includes serving as the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU for several years, as well as providing social services to people living with HIV/AIDS in the early to mid-1990s here in NYC.

I have extensive clinical experience working with queer, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, straight, trans, cis, poly, monogamous, and nonmonogamous people — in addition to people of various ethnic and racial identities, people struggling with and in recovery from substance use/abuse and compulsive behaviors, and those of various socioeconomic backgrounds. The wide diversity in human experiences is what I value the most in my work.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, member

  • American Psychological Association, Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, member

  • Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, current candidate, Certificate Program in Trauma Studies

  • PsiAN (Psychotherapy Action Network), partner alliance member

  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, graduate, faculty, & previous board member

Education, Training, & Licensure

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New York State, license number 087616

  • Certificate in Trauma Studies, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (ongoing)

  • Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center

  • Master of Social Work, New York University

  • Master of Arts in British and American Literature, Hunter College, City University of New York

  • Bachelor of Arts, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research

Presentations & Awards

  • Finding Faye: The Discovery of Pleasure in a Cis/Trans Analytic Dyad presented at TransFormations: Across the Lifespan clinical conference, NYC, March 2025

  • Diana Siskind Excellence in Writing Award First Place Prize for Finding Faye: The Discovery of Pleasure in a Cis/Trans Analytic Dyad, AAPCSW, 2025

  • Finding Faye: The Discovery of Pleasure in a Cis/Trans Analytic Dyad to be presented at the AAPCSW biannual conference: Dreaming the Future, Austin TX, November 2025

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