Clinical experience

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, School of Behavioral Health and Sciences, Los Angeles with focus on anxiety, depression, OCD, bi-polar and borderline personality disorders.  Co-facilitated groups in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based stress-reduction therapy (MBSR) for pain management and emotional distress. 

• The Maple Counseling Center in Beverly Hills with focus on adults, teenagers, families, and couples, general and relational anxiety, depression and well-being

• Beverly Hills High School and Moreno Continuation High School in Beverly Hills

• Julia Ann Singer in Los Angeles with focus on children with mild to moderate autism, Asperger's, and ADHD

 

Types of therapy practiced:

• Psychodynamic therapy

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

• Informed dialectical-behavioral  therapy(IDBT) 

• Family-systems therapy

• Solution-focused therapy

• Mindfulness-based-stress-reduction therapy (MBSR)

• Neuro-informed psychotherapy

 

Teaching students and therapists:

• American Couples and Sex Therapy (AACAST) at UCLA: Trainings for therapists: treating in same-sex couples in psychotherapy

• CAMFT, UCLA, CSUN, Antioch, LACPA, SCCC: Trainings for therapists: treating same-sex couples in psychotherapy

• Jewish Queer International: Training for help line

• Maple Counseling Center: Trainings for therapists in Mindfulness and for parents and therapists in Effective Parenting for Teenagers

 

Education ​

• Master's degree in Clinical Psychology, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA

• Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, California Behavioral Board of Sciences

• Certification in Couples and Sex Therapy, American Association of Couples and Sex Therapists, UCLA

• Bachelor's degree in Music Composition, Mannes Conservatory of Music, New York, NY