I came to psychotherapy by a circuitous route, and I think that route is part of what makes me good at this work.

I studied philosophy at Princeton, where I learned to think carefully about what it means to be a person — what consciousness is, what the self is, what we owe each other. Those questions never left me. They just found a different home.

After Princeton, I worked in politics in New York and Washington, then earned an MFA at the USC School of Cinema-Television. I spent years making documentaries — for Frontline, Nova, and PBS — and won two Emmy Awards for my editing work on Starting Over, a show about helping people rebuild their lives after trauma. That phrase, "starting over," turned out to be prophetic. The show planted something in me that eventually grew into a career change.

I trained as a therapist because I wanted to do directly what I had spent years doing through a lens: help people find the courage to see themselves clearly, to face what happened to them, and to discover that who they really are is not who their trauma told them they were.

Today, I specialize in developmental trauma — the lasting impact of growing up in a household where your core self was not seen, valued, or safe. I work with adults who are often high-functioning, deeply self-aware, and frustrated that insight alone hasn't been enough to change the patterns they can clearly see.

I practice Core Self Reclamation Therapy (CSRT), a model I helped crystallize and formulate with my partner, SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D. CSRT gives me a precise, stepwise method for reaching the self-condemning meanings that organize my clients' suffering — and transforming them at the level where they live. I also draw on my training in AEDP, and my long study of attachment theory, the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation, and the philosophy of consciousness.

I see clients via telehealth throughout New York and New Jersey.

If you'd like to learn more about how I work, visit My Approach. If you're ready to talk, contact me.