I am a filmmaker and painter, which informs the way I practice therapy.  I see therapy as the chance to do what art does: to try a new format, to dare to trust it, to nurture something new until it lives.

Therapy relies on the patience we have to see each other and the courage to try something surprising.

I have PhDs in both literature and psychology and have taught literature and writing at New York University and The New School. I am the founder of Tin House Reels, a home for videopoems on the web,  write a blog for Psychology Today, and am the author of A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf.

A career can take many chapters, and I have experience in building on various careers at once.  I can support the risks you take in changing your work and lifestyle. I work as a literature professor, videomaker, travel writer, and psychologist, bringing a sense of optimism and adventure to what I do.

I am licensed in New York, California and New Mexico, and live in New York City.

Education and Experience

PhD Psychology The New School

PhD Literature, New York University

Willy Gorrissen Award for Teaching Excellence, New York University

Molberger Fellowship, New York University

I have had a private practice, first in New York and now California, since 2010. I trained at various New York Hospitals including Beth Israel and the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, helping to develop the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy program, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the William Alanson White Institute, an educational institute for Interpersonal Therapy. I write a blog for Psychology Today and have worked as a professor of literature and writing at New York University and The New School.