Prior to graduate school, I worked in the mental health field for several years at major teaching hospitals in New Jersey and New York City, including University Behavioral Healthcare at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences), the Outpatient Psychiatry Department at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai Health System), and the Payne-Whitney Inpatient Units at New York - Presbyterian Hospital.

As a graduate student, I completed six clinical externships, spending from one to three years in each placement.  Settings included community mental health clinics, a student counseling center, and a hospice.  In addition, I completed my full-time APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the Karen Horney Clinic in New York City.  The Karen Horney Clinic is a well-respected non-profit outpatient mental health clinic that provides low-cost psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to the community.  The clinic is affiliated with the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, which is the second oldest psychoanalytic training institute in New York City, pioneered by Karen Horney after her break from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  While there, I worked in the clinic’s Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Trauma programs.

After graduation, I completed  a full-time postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University CAPS, working as a therapist in the university’s student counseling center, seeing undergraduate and graduate students for triage, individual and group psychotherapy, substance abuse evaluations, and crisis appointments.  Upon completion of the fellowship, I extended my work there as a temporary staff therapist and also provided supportive psychotherapy services to residents in two skilled nursing facilities for several years.  I worked in private practice throughout all these endeavors and am now devoted to full-time solo private practice.

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For a detailed curriculum vitae, please visit my LinkedIn Public Profile.