As a licensed clinical social worker with a PhD, my practice is geared toward working with individuals, groups, and families who face unique challenges to life events and circumstances. My strengths-oriented plan of intervention is based on the latest evidence supporting practical strategies and techniques, including Solution-focused Counseling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-focused Intervention, Structured Family Therapy, Play Therapy, Narrative Therapy, School-based Intervention, and System-based Treatment. 

 

For over 30 years, I have worked in a variety of settings, including schools, community health centers, libraries, parent resource centers, churches, synagogues, psychiatric centers, and mental health centers. My specialties include working with generalized anxiety, OCD, food allergy anxiety, chronic illness, grief and loss, conditions of childhood and adolescence, trauma, and family-centered therapy. I help clients to process their experiences plus address behavioral patterns and underlying issues that are at the root of stress, conflict, anxiety and/or depression so that they can cope and live life more fully.

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In addition to my clinical background, I am also actively involved in the community. I am an Assistant Professor in the Social Work Department at Molloy University, teaching both undergraduate students and graduate students through the Fordham-Molloy MSW Collaborative. As an active community educator, I lead workshops on grief and loss, trauma, crisis response, parenting children with complex needs, and navigating life with food allergies. I serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Family Social Work, and I am a proud member of The Academy of Food Allergy Counseling (AFAC) and The National Association of Social Workers (NASW).