I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist with a specialization in Buddhist contemplative psychotherapy.   Along with private practice, I am the Director of Contemplative Psychology, a group practice and training for therapists specializing in Contemplative based Psychotherapies.

My approach to therapy focuses on the unique concerns of each individual and tailoring the time-tested methods of ancient contemplative practices in Eastern traditions to address each individual’s particular concerns.  This means in therapy I integrate secular practices of yoga, meditation, as well as spiritual principals rooted in ancient traditions based on the immediate needs of the clients I am working with. I am active and engaged in the therapeutic relationship with clients, and I further believe that the therapeutic relationship and intersubjective process is often central to working through concerns that bring many people into therapy.

From the Western psychotherapy side, I have trained in psychodynamic, somatic and relational approaches to psychotherapy at Fordham University, NYU Bellevue, and the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. I also co-developed and directed Nalanda Institute Contemplative Psychotherapy certificate program training healthcare providers and educators in integrative Buddhist psychotherapies.

My Western psychotherapy approach is coupled with my intensive personal and professional practice of Ashtanga yoga (asana and sutra philosophy) and Tibetan Buddhism in the United States, India, Sri Lanka, Bali and Nepal for the last 25 years.  My heart mentors and guides from the Tibetan tradition include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Tenzin Zopa, Robert Thurman, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche, and Venerable Robina. 

I have a wide rage of life experiences that provide an embodied base for empathy and felt connection with my clients. In my life outside of working with clients, I enjoy being outdoors in any element of nature, being physically active, building and creating things (from woodwork, painting, and legos to professional creations), and traveling to expand my sense of self and world. I value service, local impact work, as well as pilgrimage and retreat as means of deepening my connection to the self, the world and existential truths. And certainly not least, I love being with with my two boys and partner who are my greatest teachers of joy, transcendence, heartbreak, heart-opening and love.