I received a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University and master's degrees from Teachers College at Columbia University. I am Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology. To remain current, I continue to enhance my family therapy skills through continual training that focuses on couples and families using a psychoanalytic object relations approach.

In addition, I am a registered nurse with over 15 years of experience in family health issues, stress reduction, mind/body fitness, and healing enhancements. It was these years of informal counseling of individuals and families that first interested me in the field of professional psychology.

• Licensed in 1996 as a Professional Psychologist in the State of New Jersey
• Board Certified in the specialty of Counseling Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology since 2006.  learn more
• Member of the medical staff at St. Barnabas Medical Center
• Registered Play Therapy Supervisor
• Certification in Clinical Hypnosis
• Certification in the treatment of alcohol and other psychoactive substance abuse disorders by the APA College of Professional Psychology. 
• Listed in the National Registry of Health Care Providers in Psychology
• Member of numerous professional organizations:
  
         American Psychological Association
         New Jersey Psychological Association
         New Jersey Association of Cognitive Therapists
         American Association for Play Therapy
         American Society of  Clinical Hypnosis
  
  
• Author:  Prime Time:  Flourishing After 60
• Research interests:
         - Gender-Roles, Self-Actualization and Marital Adjustment
         - Career Development
         - Affluent Family Child-Rearing Issues  learn more
  
  
• Guest Editor, Special Section on Aging, for the New Jersey Psychologist, Winter, 2008 issue
• Presenter at APA Conventions and other professional and community conferences
• Author of several published articles on life span issues

About Board Certification
Board Certification is a way to designate additional depth of expertise by those professionals who have built on their training and experience, and have
demonstrated that they are functioning at a high level of professionalism. Only about 2% - 3% of licensed psychologists become Board Certified in their
specialty. (To find out more about Board Certification in Psychology, go to www.abpp.org.)