I approach every client with the utmost respect, with interest to hear what you say and to understand you, and a commitment to help you accomplish what you are seeking in psychotherapy.

I have cultivated an ability to be attuned and to be present. I bear witness with you to your courage and your shame.

Every human being is a unique individual person.

Psychotherapy is a living personal relationship based upon your uniqueness.

Part of my therapeutic approach is offering therapy that is very gentle, and firm when needed, so as to help you get in touch with yourself, and be more deeply and securely connected to others. Not everyone, however, comes with these needs. Every person has their own individual needs, a lot of which has to do experiences you have been through.

For the past 35 year I have had the experience of learning from my clients. Each person in their uniqueness teaches me also about the human condition, about therapy, about myself and about the meaning of the pain we all know in many different ways, the basic suffering of being a human being. This is a part of our nature, a part that we devote ourselves to repeating, living with, healing or transcending. My most important credential is what I have learned and who I have become through experiences with clients.

I completed a Masters degree in Philosophy (minor: political science) from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social and Political Research, in NYC. Then i studied at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Phila. And, I have a Masters degree from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social and Work and Social Research.

I have been faculty at Bryn Mawr College and Widner University, teaching, among other courses, "Spirituality in Clinical Practice." I founded and ran "The Institute for Spirituality and Psychological Healing."

I have given many hunderds of lectures, and published many articles and books, all addressed other therapists as the audience. Many of my publications have to do with loss, mourning, and trauma. I have also published on addictions, shame, restorative justice, Kierkegaard, and intellectual disabilities.

I have a very long resume listing services developed to meet the needs of vulnerable populations. My work as a therapist and my work for vulnerable populations and my writing based on these experiences is a vital part of my identity.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

CERTIFIED ADDICTIONS SPECIALIST

The American Academy Of Health Care Providers In The Addictive Disorders. Certified as a specialist in Drug Addiction, Alcohol Addiction, and Sexual Addiction.

CERTIFIED GRIEF COUNSELOR

National Certification Review Board of the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

CERTIFIED GRIEF THERAPIST

National Certification Review Board of the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

CERTIFIED THANATOLOGIST

National Certification Review Board of the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

EMDR TRAINED



BOARD CERTIFIED DIPLOMATE (BCD)

American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work.

BOARD CERTIFIED EXPERT IN TRAUMATIC STRESS DIPLOMATE

American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

•Association for Death Education and Counseling . (Committee member: Test Committee to select and review test questions for certification in death, dying and bereavement(CT))

•National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

•Society for Spirituality and Social Work.

•International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

•American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

•The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress

•American Association of Professionals in Addictive Disorders

•The Association for Gravestone Studies

•National Association for the Dual Diagnosed

•Society for Sexual Health, profesional member

•American Pain Society & Greater Philadelphia Pain Society, psychological pain special interest group member

•EMDRIA