Notice:  I am not accepting new patients, as I will retire on March 1, 2027.

About

I have been engaged in the practice of individual and couples psychotherapy in Silver Spring for 30 years.  My theoretical orientation is contemporary psychodynamic. I participate regularly in ongoing training – with experts and in peer consultation groups — in self and relational psychotherapy, and in the integration of neuropsychological research findings in psychotherapy practice. I am Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy + Psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C.

I received my Ph.D. in Psychology in 1986 from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.  My pre-doctoral clinical internship was at the Harvard University-affiliated Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston and I served one year in post-doctoral Group Training at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. I was employed as a psychologist in the public mental health system in the District for four years, during which I supervised psychology interns, and then opened my solo private practice in 1990.

I also have a Graduate Certificate from George Washington University in Organizational Diagnosis and Change. I am licensed as a psychologist in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Under PSYPACT I have the authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology granted by the PSYPACT Commission.