Psychotherapy is demanding work. It looks easy enough, sitting in a chair, but it draws on your mind, heart and body. You must be aware, compassionate and skeptical, so that you can connect with you patient but also see beyond what they see. It is your job to stay alive and hopeful and open. To do this, it helps to know who you are, personally and professionally.

In my supervision work I help you to find your own strength and set of values so that you know what you are operating from. I also also help you develop your theoretical framework so that you are connected to others: your contemporaries and your psychological ancestors.

I am especially skilled at and really love helping therapists work effectively with couples. Couples therapy usually presents a tension between immediate concerns that the couple brings and deeper issues that are impacting the couple that they only partially understand, With all of this emotional, factual and sensory information coming towards you as the therapist, it is easy to become overwhelmed and not know where to focus. I will help you to see patterns, respond to immediate concerns, while also deepening the work. I will help you to put what you see into words so that you and the couple can be working together towards the same goals.  I have trained at The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, the Couples Institute and the Gottman Institute.

I am direct, clear-spoken and non-jargony in my language and teaching. I have consistently been told that I am able to synthesize and elaborate on complex topics with clear language. I have taught or supervised at PINC, The Psychoanalytic Institute, The Wright Institute, Access Institute, The Psychotherapy Institute and The Pacific Center. In my own training, especially as an analyst, I received extensive, intensive supervision. Early in my career, I worked in social services and supervised numerous clinicians in day treatment, foster care and in home family preservation programs.