About

I am a semi-retired LCSW psychotherapist in New York with twenty years of experience. My main modes of treatment are Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. I also teach a secular form of meditation called metta or loving kindness. This is an easier and happier type of meditation than most forms of mindfulness. It is a mood lifting meditation that helps people suffering from stress, anxiety, and depression.

Over the course of my career, I have come to see most people's problems as problems of intrusive thoughts. These specific problems include Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, OCD (especially obsession-only OCD), Major Depressive Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Gender Dysphoria. Over the last decade, I have developed a modality called Desensitization to Intrusive Thoughts (DIT). DIT uses brief meditation and visualization exercises to reveal negative intrusive thoughts. These are relieved using a form of CBT that is compassionate, reasonable, and effective.

I have personal experience with cancer treatment and COVID. I can provide support via text or video to patients and their families.

If you or a loved one are using drugs, feeling suicidal or homicidal, or you are experiencing abuse in the workplace, in your marriage, or in another relationship ; you can trust that I am not an alarmist. Though these conditions are worrisome, they have probably been going on for long enough that there is no need for radical intervention. They require change, but it won't happen tomorrow.

Kindness, caring, insight and rational action are the best treatment.