Education                                                             
B.F.A. Pratt Institute 1976
M.A. George Washington University 1982
Ed.S. Seton Hall University 1990                                       

•     N.J#.F10001370 Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist , since 1991

•      Clinical member of American Association for Marriage and Family  Therapy since 1990

•      Completed 4-day Externship in Emotionallly Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)November 2011 

I began my journey as an art student, majoring in painting & printmaking.  Yet, I always had an interest in what makes people tick, so many of my electives were in psychology and sociology.  After Pratt, I studied Art Therapy at George Washington University, then continued at Seton Hall for an Ed. S. in Marriage & Family Therapy.  I worked for a few hospital based clinics for several years before entering full time private practice in 1995.
     My practice has evolved from my own strong feelings, based on continued evidence, that although we are all born with certain personality traits, our lives are shaped by our earliest relationships.  If our earliest "home" was unsafe, if we did not experience secure attachment, we will have difficulty experiencing it in adulthood.  Yet, connection is what we all seek and need.  We are designed to bond with another human being in a physical and emotional way-called love.   Most relationships will experience stress at one time or another.  I have found EFT to be particularly helpful because it acknowledges the following :
          

•  Relationships are attachment bonds
•  Change involves a new experience of the self 
  
•  Rigid interaction patterns create and reflect absorbing emotional states. Its systemic.
•  Emotion is the target and agent of change
•  The therapist is a process consultant