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I am an American psychotherapist, as well as an art
therapist, in private practice in Grenoble where I work with adults,
children of all ages, adolescents and couples. Trained in post-graduate
studies at the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, I
received an MA in art therapy at New York University. I hold current New
York State licenses in Psychoanalysis and Creative Arts Therapy.
The kinds of difficulties that usually bring people to therapy include:
anxiety and depression, life transitions or crises including divorce,
medical illness and loss, self-destructive patterns, stress, trauma,
career decisions, adaptation to life in a new country, parenting
consultation, creative blocks, eating disorders, relationship
difficulties, parenting issues, chronic feelings of emptiness or
loneliness and life-disrupting symptoms associated with physical or
sexual abuse. Most adults coming to my practice usually choose
psychotherapy because they’re more comfortable talking about what is on
their minds, but some adults also choose art therapy. Children, however,
express themselves more naturally in art therapy or play therapy;
adolescents tend to be comfortable with either one, depending upon their
personal preference.
In addition to my private practice, I am a consultant at the Centre
Hospitalier Université (CHU) de Grenoble, Department of Oncology,
through the Association AGARO (Association Grenobloise d’Aide à la
Recherche en Oncologie), where I provide art therapy services to adult
cancer patients, individually and in group. In addition to art therapy
serving the purpose of helping people to express something about the
ordeal that they’re undergoing, which helps them cope better, they often
seek to explore issues related to the effects of illness as it impacts
identity, femininity/masculinity and unresolved issues from the past.
Before establishing my practice in Grenoble, I worked in New York City
and New Jersey, both as a clinical psychotherapist and art therapist and
as an adjunct professor at New York University’s MA program in Art
Therapy, teaching and supervising graduate students. I have also
supervised art therapists and psychotherapists in Italy and Switzerland
during the past twenty-five years that I have lived in France. Currently
I teach a psychology course in English to psychology students at the
Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens in Lyon. I have authored numerous
articles about creativity and personal expression through therapy. |
