“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
About Me
My career in mental health has spanned more than 35 years. I have enjoyed the challenges and rewards of engagement in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. I attended Emory University where I received a B.S. in nursing, followed by a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Nursing from Boston University. My early education has supported me in the continuation of learning.
I am grateful for the experience I obtained early in my career. I was instrumental in initiating the rape crisis program, including training, at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center). My experience included supervising psychiatric nurses in the emergency room. From there I relocated, managing an inpatient psychiatric unit at a hospital on the North Shore. I initiated a women’s treatment program when PTSD from childhood sexual and physical abuse was being recognized. I taught many work shops in the hospital setting, as well as psychiatric consultation for medical conditions.
As I established a private practice, my specialty developed to include Dissociative Disorders and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I have also treated depression, anxiety disorders and attention deficit disorders. My practices have been located on the North Shore of Boston, Watertown, Boston, and currently Cambridge, MA, and Rockport, MA.
My training includes certification by the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, with a focus on healing traumatic neural pathways, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, level I (AEDP), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, Adult Attachment Disorders, and many courses and workshops related to my specialty and past prescription practice; I have also taught various workshops and been a consultant to other clinicians treating DDNOS and CPTSD.
“As human beings, we have the potential to disentangle ourselves from old habits, and the potential to love and care about each other. We have the capacity to wake up and live consciously…Moment by moment we can choose to go toward clarity and happiness. Deep down in the human spirit there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.”
Pema Chodron