Phone: 212-874-3770
Email: njdtherapy@gmail.com
Background
License Information
New York –– 1983 to Present
District of Columbia –– 1995 "Inactive"
Connecticut –– 2005 to Present
Florida –– 2012 to Present
Education
1990, Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)
1986, Advanced Certificate in Clinical Social Work, NYU School of Social Work
1983, MA in Social Work, Columbia University School of Social Work
Professional Affiliations
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Clinical Experience
Full-Time Private Practice, New York, NY, 1989-present
Group Supervision Instructor, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), 2006-2009
Volunteer Group Supervisor, New York, NY, 2000-2004
Supervisor, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) 1999-present
Private Individual Supervision, 1999-present
Continuing Education
Psychological Wellness and Self-Care as an Ethical Imperative, TZK Seminars, April 11, 2024
Integrating Traumatic Memories: Conceptualization and Clinical Considerations in Evidence-based Approaches to Trauma Processing, TZK Seminars, March 4, 2024
Boundary Issues and Multiple Relationships in the Real World: A Rational Approach, TZK Seminars, February 14, 2024
Introduction to Attachment-Based Family Therapy, TZK Seminars, June 13, 2023
Making Peace With Panic: A Mindful Approach to Understanding and Treating Panic, TZK Seminars, June 8, 2023
Gaslighting in the Spotlight, TZK Seminars, January 14, 2023
Understanding and Treating the Cybersexually Addicted, TZK Seminars, July 10, 2022
Psychological Wellness and Self-Care as an Ethical Imperative, TZK Seminars, July 8, 2022
Awestruck: How the New Science of Awe Can Make Us Happier, Healthier, and More Connected, TZK Seminars, November 22, 2021
Calming The Emotional Storm: Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy, TZK Seminars, October 15, 2021
Spirituality in Clinical Social Work, National Association of Social Workers, September 24, 2021
Meeting the (Big) Challenges of “Blended Families”: Rupture and Resilience Up Close and Personal, Ackerman Institute, February 28, 2020
When the Music Stops: Understanding the Unique Contributions of Therapy, Mediation and Collaborative Divorce When Marriage Comes to an End, Ackerman Institute, September 6, 2019
The Heart of Couple Therapy: Key Principles for Enabling Couples to Change, Ackerman Institute, November 30, 2018
Ambiguous Loss and the Myth of Closure, Ackerman Institute, April 6, 2018
DBT Principles and their Application to Treating Couples and Families, Ackerman Institute, February 16, 2018
Love, Secrets, Cybersex, Infidelity, Addiction – and Forgiveness, Ackerman Institute, April 21, 2017
Loving with ADHD, Ackerman Institute, January 13, 2017
Working with Emotions in Clinical Practice, Ackerman Institute, December 4, 2015
Between Pink & Blue Combining Affirmative and Research Based Approaches to Gender Expansive and Transgender (GET) Youth and Their Families, Ackerman Institute, November 20, 2015
Learning to Listen to Men’s Sexual Narrative in Treatment, Ackerman Institute, October 23, 2015
Emotional Overreaction in Couples, Ackerman Institute, May 29, 2015
Love, Secrets, Cybersex, Infidelity, Addiction- and Forgiveness?, Ackerman Institute, May 16, 2014
Ten Things Therapists Need to Know about Sex- and Why, Ackerman Institute, May 9, 2014
Secrets in Families and Family Therapy Ackerman Institute, Ackerman Institute, May 17, 2013
Sexual Intelligence: Cybersex, Kinky Sex, Pornography and Sex Addiction, Ackerman Institute, May 10, 2013
Facilitating Resilience in Couples Therapy: A Neurobiological-Relational Approach,Ackerman Institute, May 3, 2013
Love and its Discontents: A Neurobiological-Relational Approach to Couple Therapy, Ackerman Institute, June 8, 2012
Therapy with Couples: Working with Power and Privilege, Ackerman Institute, November 11, 2011
From Analytic Delinquency to Boundary Violation: A Clinical Workshop, Division 39 Conference, April 13, 2011
The Multiple Aspects of Multiplicity: From Traumatic Dissociation to a Normative Model of Mind, Division 39 Conference, April 13, 2011
Models of Marriage and Attachment Ideal of Affairs: A Systemic-Attachment Position, Ackerman Institute, April 8, 2011
Do Not Ask Me to Forgive you! A Radical Approach to Healing Interpersonal Wounds, Ackerman Institute, February 25, 2011
Bodies: What exactly are these bodies that we are trying to live in?, William Alanson White Institute, May, 2010
Facilitating Relational Empowerment in Couples Therapy, Ackerman Institute, April 30, 2010
Money Matters: The Collapse of Consciousness, William Alanson White Institute, March, 2010
EDCAS One-Year Course: Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions, William Alanson White Institute, September 2008 – June 2009
Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Foundations, Clinical Ramifications, Division 39 Annual Spring Meeting, April 9, 2008
Knowing Not Knowing & Sort of Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty, Division 39 Annual Spring Meeting, Waldorf Astoria, April 10– 13, 2008
Current Perspectives in American Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Institute, June, 2007
Couples Therapy for the Psychoanalyst, William Alanson White Institute, March, 2007