My career began in New York City. After graduating from the Hunter College School of Social Work, I immediately entered psychoanalytic training. I worked in the locked psychiatric unit at Queens Hospital Center for several years and then transitioned into the field of addiction recovery. I eventually accepted a position as administrator of the hospital's detoxification unit, training staff and developing protocols for the treatment of drug and alcohol relapse.

Following a decade of working in the public sector, I was hired by Merrill Lynch's Employee Assistance Program to provide counseling to financial analysts and their families. During the course of my twelve-year tenure, I traveled around the country to help employees suffering from trauma (be it personal or work-related), as well as those directly victimized by large-scale humanitarian crises, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine massacre, and 9/11 attacks.

In 2006 I dedicated myself full-time to my private practice, and have been doing so ever since. I am licensed in New York, Missouri, and North Carolina.