I’ve been working as a therapist with children, adults and families for more than 30 years. As an immigrant to two countries, I am very familiar with relocation to unfamiliar places, and having to grapple with the process of acculturation. This experience gives me insight and empathy, and my language skills enable me to work with English, Spanish and Hebrew speakers.
I’m very curious, a keen observer of human nature, and I have the ability to be compassionate and reflect without being reactive or getting pulled into action. I’m able to hold multiple perspectives empathically. A deep thinker, I am good at exploring and making meaning from issues that emerge both day-to-day and in challenging life situations.
I received my Master of Social Welfare degree from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare in 1989, and became licensed as a Clinical Social Worker (LCS 16229) in 1992.
I am endorsed by the California Center for Infant, Family and Early Childhood Mental Health as a mental health specialist, reflective practice facilitator II and mentor. I am rostered in Child-Parent Psychotherapy—a trauma-informed, developmentally-based intervention that helps parents and children integrate and heal from stressful and traumatic events of early attachment and early childhood.