Not necessarily. It depends on the type of support you're looking for.

For in-person psychotherapy, sessions take place at my office in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I also offer online psychotherapy to clients located anywhere in New York State.

For clients outside New York, I offer therapeutic coaching online, regardless of location. Therapeutic coaching draws on psychological insight and personal growth work but is distinct from psychotherapy. It does not include mental health diagnosis or treatment.

If you're unsure which option is right for you, we can explore that during a brief consultation.

I offer a complimentary 10–15 minute phone consultation before scheduling an initial session. It’s a chance for you to tell me a little about what brings you to therapy, ask any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether working together feels like the right fit.

I am in-network with Oxford UnitedHealthcare. If you have another insurance plan, you can check with your insurer to see whether you have out-of-network benefits. I’m happy to provide a superbill, which is a detailed receipt for your sessions that you can submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement.

Absolutely. Beginning therapy doesn't mean committing to a particular number of sessions or knowing in advance whether this is the right fit.

I offer a complimentary 10–15 minute phone consultation so we can briefly discuss what you're looking for and whether working together might make sense.

The first session or two are generally devoted to intake and assessment—getting to know you, understanding your history, and exploring what brings you to therapy. Because we haven't yet fully entered into the therapeutic work, I usually recommend allowing a few sessions to settle in and get a more meaningful sense of what working together might be like.

Finding the right therapist matters. You are always free to decide whether the relationship and approach feel right for you.

Sessions are 50 minutes. I recommend setting aside a full hour when possible, as there are times when it may feel important not to end at an exact stopping point. When needed, we can use those last few minutes to find a more grounded or natural place to close.

In couples therapy, we may sometimes choose to schedule two sessions back-to-back, giving us more breathing room to work through a particular issue without feeling rushed.

Finding the right therapist is personal, and it can be difficult to know from a website alone. The initial consultation gives us a chance to talk briefly about what brings you in, for you to ask questions, and for both of us to get a sense of whether working together might be a good fit.

Not at all. While many people begin therapy because something feels painful or difficult, suffering isn't a prerequisite for meaningful therapeutic work.

Therapy can also be a place to deepen your understanding of yourself, explore your desires and possibilities, strengthen your capacity for intimacy and connection, or become more fully engaged in your own life.

Sometimes we come to therapy because something is wrong. Other times, because we sense that something more is possible.

No. You don’t need to arrive knowing whether you need IFS, EMDR, somatic work, or any particular kind of therapy. Part of my role is to listen carefully to what brings you in, understand how you experience and make sense of things, and together determine what ways of working may be most helpful. This can also evolve as the therapy unfolds.

Understanding ourselves is important, but insight alone doesn't always lead to change. We can know exactly why we respond the way we do and still find ourselves caught in the same emotional reactions, relationship patterns, or ways of protecting ourselves.

Often, these patterns are rooted in experiences that live beyond our intellectual understanding—in our emotional responses, our bodies, and the ways we've learned to relate to ourselves and others.

Therapy can help us move beyond knowing about ourselves toward experiencing something different. Through this process, new possibilities for responding, relating, and living can begin to emerge.

That's okay. You don't need to arrive at therapy ready to share everything, or even knowing how to put your experiences into words.

Sometimes there are good reasons we've learned to keep things to ourselves. We may fear being judged, misunderstood, exposed, or even discovering something about ourselves that we're not ready to face.

Rather than treating these hesitations as obstacles to therapy, we can become curious about them together. The parts of us that hold back often have important reasons for doing so, and understanding those reasons can become a meaningful part of the work.

Honesty and trust don't have to be prerequisites for therapy. They can be things we gradually develop within it.

Disagreement and misunderstanding are natural parts of any relationship, including the therapeutic one. You don't have to agree with me, accept my interpretations, or feel that I've understood you perfectly at every moment.

In fact, I welcome it when clients tell me that something I've said doesn't resonate, that I've missed something important, or that they're experiencing our work differently than I am.

These moments can become valuable opportunities to understand each other more deeply. Sometimes, working through a misunderstanding or rupture within the therapeutic relationship can itself become a meaningful experience of repair.

Therapy should be a place where your voice, perspective, and agency become stronger, not smaller.

Absolutely. For many people, faith and spirituality are deeply intertwined with their sense of self, their relationships, and the ways they understand their experiences.

I welcome the exploration of religious beliefs, spiritual experiences, questions, doubts, and the ways faith can be a source of both nourishment and struggle. My own background includes extensive study of Jewish thought and mysticism, and I bring an understanding of the ways psychological and spiritual life can intersect.

At the same time, spirituality is never something I impose on the therapeutic process. Whether and how it enters our work is entirely up to you.ng, connection, and strength. For others, they may be complicated, painful, or simply not relevant to what brings them to therapy. We can make room for these parts of your life when they matter to you, without any expectation that they be part of the work.

I draw from psychodynamic and relational therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic approaches, and EMDR. My work is integrative rather than tied to a single method, and I think carefully about what approach may be most useful for you and what we are working on together.