As a career changer, my interdisciplinary background deeply informs my work as a therapist and my understanding of specialized worlds and experiences.
TEENS & TWEENS
At my core, I am a tween & teen therapist. My first clinical role was in the counseling office at a NYC public middle school, and I work with patients ages 10 and up. I have extensive experience supporting LGBTQIA+ youth, approaching identity exploration with curiosity and sensitivity.
I meet regularly with parents and caregivers, fostering collaboration and open communication in support of your child while respecting their privacy and autonomy. I’m attentive to sibling dynamics and the family as a whole. When one family member changes, everyone's role reorganizes.
PERFORMING ARTISTS & WRITERS
As a former theatre professional with an MFA in musical theatre writing, theatre, music, and storytelling often become a shared language in my work with performing artists and other creatives. I’m eager to engage with the art you create and consume as we better understand how you experience and make sense of the world.
Story structure, music theory, and specific musicals and plays often become metaphors and points of reference in our work together. My firsthand experience with the instability and uncertainty of life in the performing arts, along with the internal conflicts of making art your career, gives me a deeper understanding of the particular pressures and complexities of this world.
BARIATRIC PATIENTS
Undergoing weight loss surgery or other bariatric medical interventions is a psychologically complex journey. After years of obesity and repeated attempts to lose weight, bariatric patients often find themselves navigating rapid changes in their body, relationship to food, coping mechanisms, identity, sexuality, family dynamics, and how they’re perceived by others. As you redefine your life, we may celebrate your successes, mourn the armor that once kept you safe, feel the guilt of “betraying” body positivity or feminism, experience the overwhelm of clothes shopping, and sit with the disorientation of not recognizing your own reflection.
FORMER ORTHODOX JEWS
Leaving Ultra Orthodoxy is a major transition, often bringing up conflicting feelings of freedom and overwhelm, excitement and grief, possibility and disorientation. Shifts in identity, structure, relationships, and family can leave you feeling untethered and alone. Through my previous work in pluralistic Jewish nonprofits, I am well-versed in the language, traditions, and internal dynamics of Chasidic, Yeshivish, and broader halachic communities without being directly part of them.