About
Since 1982 it has been my quest to find the best tools for providing hope and healing to individuals, couples and families in emotional pain. I have found Schema Therapy(ST)to be the most powerful tool for healing a range of painful difficulties and the deep undercurrents of those difficulties. Its focus on limited reparenting and attunement validate what I have learned throughout my career, that healing begins with feeling deeply understood and nurtured. I am a licensed marriage & family therapist, trained in ST with Wendy Behary and her colleagues at the New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy, certified as a schema therapist in 2018 and an active member of the Schema Therapy Community since its inception. I have also completed intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with Marsha Linehan in 2002, Mentalization-Based Therapy with Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy in 2012 and various models of couples and family therapy /psycho-education, which I integrate as needed. My work is also informed by my years at Mental Health Partnerships (formerly the Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA, an affiliate of Mental Health America) where I have been developing, implementing and publishing on family educational interventions, and training clinicians/service providers since 1985.