About Me
After earning a B.A. in English and teaching certification from Bucknell University, I taught Title One Language Arts at a high school on the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona for two years. I then embarked on a decade-long career in corporate communications in New York City and Boston, and in 1991, led a group that won the public relations field’s most prestigious national award, the Silver Anvil. Starting in 1998, I earned a Master of Education degree followed by a Master of Clinical Social Work degree from Boston University. In the years since, I’ve developed a general therapeutic practice that includes a special emphasis on learning, attention, and executive functioning issues. Because there is no single remedy to such challenges, I help my clients pursue a variety of interventions tailored to their needs. Interventions target skills such as:
- Maintaining attention
- Prioritizing tasks
- Overcoming procrastination
- Reading & recalling
- Lateral thinking
- Visual-spatial thinking
- Taking notes
- Studying
- Writing
- Sensing social signals
- Making small talk
- Speaking assertively
I have conducted workshops for teachers, therapeutic professionals, and graduate students in education and health fields at:
- Tufts University
- MGH Institutes of Health
- Lexington High School
- Francis Parker Charter School
- Educational Training Collaborative
- Cambridgeport School
- Milton High School
- R.J. Grey Middle School
- Lawrence Academy
- Boston Neurofeedback
Presentations have covered coping with ADHD, treating nonverbal learning disabilities, managing anxiety, understanding the teenage brain, and parenting effectively.
I see clients out of two offices: a home office in Winchester, MA, and a second office in Harvard, MA. Most of my clientele pay out of pocket, but those with PPO-style insurance plans, seek coverage under their plan’s provisions for out-of-network providers.