I am a clinical social worker and an institute-certified psychotherapist. For many years I maintained a private practice in Manhattan while also senior staff therapist in Columbia University's Counseling anf Psychological Services.I have taught at City College and Teachers College, Columbia. I have lived abroad extensively and am multi-lingual. My practice specialties are loss and bereavement issues, cross-cultural therapy and dream sharing groups; I trained with Montague Ullman for several years. I have published several clinical papers which include dream material from work with foreign students.

"Dream Sharing in a Retirement Community"; DreamTime, Fall 2006;
"International Students on Campus: a Challenge for Counselors, Medical Preoviders and Clinicians"; Smith College Studies in Social Work,November 1991;
"Separation and Loss In University Mental Health Work", Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 16, 1998;