I am a licensed master social worker (LMSW) providing psychotherapy for adults at Erika Malm Collective and BCS Group, and a social worker at NYU Langone Hospital. I earned my MSW with a concentration in Integrated Health from Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare, during which time I held a research internship at the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Substance Use Research Lab. I have received postgraduate training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and Emotion Focused Family Therapy. I previously provided psychotherapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) in the private practice of psychiatrist Gita Vaid, MD and provided supportive counseling for unhoused people living with HIV and substance use disorders in Brooklyn.
Prior to becoming a therapist, I was a journalist and editor with a focus on health, science and culture. I was a senior editor at Psychology Today, where I worked on feature stories related to mental health, behavioral science, neuroscience and social psychology, as well as personal essays and interviews. I was also a reporter for The City section of The New York Times and my writing has appeared in Slate, Salon, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, The Christian Science Monitor, Monocle, Babble, The Forward, Self, Real Simple, City Pages, The Atlantic and The Washington Post as well as several anthologies. I was the founder of Heeb Magazine in 2002, though the independent publishing endeavors of which I'm most fond are the Jewish punk zine Mazeltov Cocktail and the Riot Grrrl zine Gogglebox, which I created in the mid-'90s. I was an adjunct faculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, received a Circle of Excellence Bronze Medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for my article Trip To the Doctor, and was awarded fellowships from the National Press Foundation and the Association of Health Care Journalists.