As a clinical psychologist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, my area of specialty is somatic psychotherapy.  As Director of Counseling Services at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center, I created the Postdoctoral Psychology Training Program in University Counseling: Trauma and Somatic Studies that focuses on issues of embodiment and intersectionality in psychotherapy with an eye toward the impact of trauma, whether that be acute trauma, developmental trauma, and/or structural trauma, such as racism, transphobia, and the like.

I am not a bodyworker and do not use touch in my practice.  Rather, I offer an embodied psychotherapy approach which anchors therapeutic work in awareness of sensation and uses the body as a touchstone in guiding the process.  Inquiry into sensation and bodily experiences is interwoven with dynamic narrative exploration. 

My work is experiential, body-focused, and based on the belief that we all have an innate capacity to heal. I have spent the last twenty years in clinical practice integrating these methods, along with contemporary neuroscience research in trauma and attachment, to develop an approach that is powerful, effective, and deeply embodied.