My training & experience

My training & experience

I’ve been a psychoanalyst in New York City for about thirteen years. I’m also licensed to practice in the District of Columbia.

I completed a certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center — as well as a certificate in Trauma Studies from 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 experience working with queer, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, straight, trans, nonbinary, 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

  • International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, member

  • Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, graduate

  • PsiAN (Psychotherapy Action Network), partner alliance member

  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, graduate, former faculty, former board member


Education, Training, & Licensure

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

  • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, District of Columbia, license number LC200004599

  • General Psychiatric Management (GPM) for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Harvard Medical School

  • Certificate in Trauma Studies, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis

  • 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 the AAPCSW biannual conference: Dreaming the Future, Austin TX, November 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 presented at TransFormations: Across the Lifespan clinical conference, NYC, March 2025


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