I am a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Woodland Hills, California. For more than twenty five years, I have treated patients, couples and families from infancy to 64 years of age. I use a holistic and integrated approach to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems that combines a number of different perspectives, including medical and evidence-based treatments along with psychoanalytic and developmental theory and techniques.
In addition to my clinical work, I am a Clinical Professor at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine in the Departments of Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry, where I teach professionals in training, including medical students, psychiatry residents and child psychiatry fellows. I also teach post-graduate students psychoanalytic theory and technique at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) where I am Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Program, Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Clinic, and Senior Teaching Faculty. I am also a Training Analyst and a Child, Adolescent and Adult Supervising Analyst at NCP and at the Western Consortium of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysts.
Education and Certifications
After graduating from Harvard-Radcliffe University, I attended the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF). I completed my internship and psychiatric residency training at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital and my child and adolescent psychiatric training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. I graduated from both the adult and child psychoanalytic programs at NCP Los Angeles.
I am certified in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. I am also certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Adult Psychoanalysis.
Honors
I have been named a Distinguished Fellow by both the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.
