about me

 

As a clinician, I approach therapy with curiosity and empathy, and aim to offer a safe and confidential space where you may explore your experience.  While treatment is individualized, the initial sessions focus on obtaining a history of the factors bringing you to therapy.  This may include identifying symptoms and life circumstances, as well as exploring one's family of origin, social and cultural environment, and relational patterns.  Through this work, you may be able to recognize the influences that impact current functioning, contextualize the ways in which you relate to yourself and others, and increase your ability to make conscious choices.  

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My therapeutic approach is informed by contemporary psychoanalytic theory, and considers the role of past influences on identity, personality, and interpersonal functioning, while attending to the here-and-now of the therapy process.  Psychotherapy takes place within a relational framework that considers how the self is impacted and impacts the other, and promotes processing of emotionally-laden experiences.  While insight is an important component of the work, coping skills and motivation for change are also explored.  

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Areas of advanced training include relational, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Latiné mental health, and Dialogue Therapy for couples and adult dyads.  I have worked as a clinical psychologist in South Florida since 2000, and offer psychotherapy, consultation, and supervision in English and Spanish.   

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education

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Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1998-2000)

Program for Psychotherapy

Latino Mental Health Clinic

Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Clinical Psychology (1998)

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

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Pre-Doctoral Internship (1997-1998)

Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Outpatient Clinic for Children and Family

Latino Mental Health Clinic

The Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts​
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additional training ​

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Relational Theory in Clinical Practice

Advanced Clinical Seminars (2023-2026)

The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, New York, New York

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Certified Dialogue Therapist (2020-2022)

Center for Dialogue Therapy, Stowe, Vermont

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professional affiliations​​​​​

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Member, Florida Psychoanalytic Center

Faculty, The Center for Real Dialogue

Member, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

 

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