I am licensed in New Jersey with over 10 years of professional work experience. I help clients with stress and anxiety, coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, & motivation, self esteem, confidence, depression, and other mental health issues. I work with my clients to create an open and safe environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. I have taught addictions counseling as an Adjunct Graduate Professor of Psychology. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy takes courage. You should be proud of yourself for undertaking this crucial step on your journey to a better, more fulfilling life. My work as a psychotherapist has been been recognized in the 75th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in America. I am a former president of the New Jersey Mental Health Counselors Association and I am the Ethics Chair of the New Jersey Counseling Association.
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Sleeping disorders, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Blended family issues, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Money and financial issues, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual assault and abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
NJ LPC 37PC00792000