About Me
After completing my MSW I received clinical training and supervision through my work at the Mental Health Clinics of agencies including the Catholic Home Bureau and Community Counseling and Mediation in NYC. For over 10 years I was employed as a clinician and supervisor with the Stuyvesant Square inpatient Chemical Dependency Services of Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.
In the early 1990s I established a part-time private practice working in both NYC and Montclair NJ. For the past 12 years I have been employed as a Social Worker with the Newark Public Schools, working with learning and behaviorally disabled students from K to 12th grade, and with their families.
For many years, until their closing in March 2012, I was a clinician at the Montclair Counseling Center. Through the Montclair Counseling Center, and their association with the Montclair Public Schools Health and Wellness Partnership, I was engaged in providing numerous educational and clinical services in the Montclair community. These included a series of parent support groups which focused on meeting the most pressing challenges of parenting adolescents today (issues related to substance abuse, teen parties, the use and misuse of social media, appropriate limit-setting, motivating academic achievement, etcetera). In May 2012, I participated in a panel interview for local channel 34 on the topic of Adolescent Depression. Since 2012 I have been a guest lecturer at classes of Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work on subjects including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Adolescent Depression and Suicide.