MY BACKGROUND
I became a therapist after a successful twelve year career in international publishing, where I was responsible for marketing English language books to foreign countries. My work took me to Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America, and exposed me to many different cultures and personalities. Over the course of my travels I came to realize that I got much greater fulfillment from getting to know my clients as people than from working with them as customers.
At the same time, I became fascinated by the process of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and as a patient, I began not only to understand myself better, but, more important, to see myself change and grow. When the opportunity to leave publishing presented itself, it didn’t take long for me to enter a graduate program at NYU School of Social Work, after which I received post-graduate certificates in both Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Clinic.
Somewhere along the way, I also discovered modern dance. Not having had any serious training as a child, I initially approached dance as a form of exercise, but was almost immediately captivated by the experience of expressing myself in a nonverbal form. My education as a dancer and my deepening involvement in the arts opened up new ways of thinking about communication and process. What a wonderful complement to my role as a “talk therapist”!
I cannot imagine being the therapist I am without having had these influences -- publishing took me out into (and around) the world; psychoanalysis opened me to my inner world; and dance forever changed my relationship to the world!
At the same time, I became fascinated by the process of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and as a patient, I began not only to understand myself better, but, more important, to see myself change and grow. When the opportunity to leave publishing presented itself, it didn’t take long for me to enter a graduate program at NYU School of Social Work, after which I received post-graduate certificates in both Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Clinic.
Somewhere along the way, I also discovered modern dance. Not having had any serious training as a child, I initially approached dance as a form of exercise, but was almost immediately captivated by the experience of expressing myself in a nonverbal form. My education as a dancer and my deepening involvement in the arts opened up new ways of thinking about communication and process. What a wonderful complement to my role as a “talk therapist”!
I cannot imagine being the therapist I am without having had these influences -- publishing took me out into (and around) the world; psychoanalysis opened me to my inner world; and dance forever changed my relationship to the world!