I received my Bachelor's degree in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College and my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. I am a Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Hollywood. I approach treatment with patients from a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic orientation incorporating a neurodevelopmental perspective. I treat individual adults, couples, individual children, parent-infant dyads and groups.
My interest in the impact of early relationships on mental health informs the work I do with clients no matter their age. I have experience working with anxiety and depressive disorders, trauma, grief, loss, life transitions, perinatal mental health, parenting and behavior challenges, and developmental delays and autism spectrum disorders. My clinical training included experience at several well known clinics in the Los Angeles area where I worked with a variety of populations.
I trained at Valley Community Counseling Clinic where I worked with individual adults, children, and parent-infant dyad from a psychoanalytically oriented perspective.
My interest in the impact of early relationships on mental health informs the work I do with clients no matter their age. I have experience working with anxiety and depressive disorders, trauma, grief, loss, life transitions, perinatal mental health, parenting and behavior challenges, and developmental delays and autism spectrum disorders. My clinical training included experience at several well known clinics in the Los Angeles area where I worked with a variety of populations.
I trained at Valley Community Counseling Clinic where I worked with individual adults, children, and parent-infant dyad from a psychoanalytically oriented perspective.
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What we know from research over the past two decades is that the quality of the care given by the primary caregivers to infants in the first few years of life is directly related to the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of children.
Many times this important relationship between mother and infant or young child can be stressed.
New mothers are busy recovering from childbirth while adapting to life with a new baby.
This experience may go smoothly, but when it doesn't a new mother may feel many complicated emotions such as: excessive worry and sadness, anger or irritability, panic, extreme fatigue, isolation, difficulty concentrating, making decisions, or lack of pleasure.
Many times this important relationship between mother and infant or young child can be stressed.
New mothers are busy recovering from childbirth while adapting to life with a new baby.
This experience may go smoothly, but when it doesn't a new mother may feel many complicated emotions such as: excessive worry and sadness, anger or irritability, panic, extreme fatigue, isolation, difficulty concentrating, making decisions, or lack of pleasure.
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