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 teaches, therapeutic professionals, and graduate students in education and health fields at:

• Tufts University
• Lexington High School
• Francis Parker Charter School
• Educational Training
• Cambridgeport School Collaborative
• Milton High School
• MGH Institutes of Health
• 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.