The loving mother teaches her child to walk alone. She is far enough away from him so that she cannot actually support him, but she holds out her arms to him. She imitates his movements, and if he totters, she swiftly bends as if to seize him, so that the child might believe he is not walking alone ... And yet, she does more.
Her face beckons like a reward, an encouragement. Thus, the child walks alone with his eyes fixed on his mother's face, not on the difficulties in his way. He supports himself by the arms that do not hold him and constantly strives towards the refuge in his mother's embrace, little suspecting that in the very same moment that he is emphasizing his need of her, he is proving that he can do without her, because he is walking alone.
-Kierkegaard
I am a licensed psychologist who was granted the Ph.D. degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan. I received my post-doctoral clinical training at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Philadelphia.
My experience of over twenty years includes: Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University (Ogontz) in Abington, Primary Therapist on an inpatient adolescent-young adult unit at Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation in Doylestown, and more recently Clinical Psychologist with a group practice.
I am affiliated with the following professional organizations: The American Psychological Association, the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists.
I believe that my purpose in practicing psychotherapy is to assist my patients in their evolution from comparatively helpless states in resolving certain problems to one of empowerment in managing their lives, resolving their conflicts and achieving their personal aspirations. I find that an integrative approach, utilizing psychoanalytic, cognitive and behavioral modalities helpful in designing individualized care for each of my patients and their specific goals.
I practice an integrative approach utilizing cognitive, behavioral and psychodynamic modalities within a nurturing therapeutic environment in order to foster development, healing and the resolution of many kinds of problems.
Paintings - Claude Monet