I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience specializing in maternal mental health, women’s issues, parenting, and early child development. I received my B.S. from Boston University, my M.A. from New York University, and my Psy.D. from Ryokan College. I am also a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP). As an intern at The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, I worked in their therapeutic nursery school. I completed my post-doctoral training at Cedars Sinai Early Childhood Center in Los Angeles where I worked privately and in groups with parents of infants, toddlers, and young children. For many years while having a private practice, I also worked for a group pediatric practice in Encino, conducting workshops on a variety of child development and parenting topics. In addition, from 2007-2014, I ran weekly therapy groups at New Directions Eating Disorder Center™ in Sherman Oaks and taught parenting classes at A Mother’s Haven™ in Encino. From 2014-2023 I served as the staff psychologist and Parent & Me curriculum director at The Pump Station and Nurtury™ in Santa Monica.

Through my experience and the many people I have worked with, I’ve learned to base my practice around what science calls the negativity bias. This is the notion that when we struggle, we are neurobiologically wired to make sense of our struggle by creating a negative story around it. The negativity bias often keeps us feeling defeated, broken and not good enough. Through our work together, I will help you learn the skills and tools to create a more constructive narrative for yourself. This will allow you to stay centered and open-minded, so that you can live an authentic life with strength, resilience, and positivity. My therapeutic approach is eclectic in that I pull from a number of different theoretical orientations including mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, psychodynamic therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and emotionally focused therapy.