This is an exciting time to practice psychiatry - as advances in talking therapy, psychopharmacology, and neuroscience have created opportunities for more powerful and integrated approaches to treatment. 

As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, my experience has taught me about the effectiveness of talking therapies, which help patients in a variety of ways - including fostering self-expression and emotionally meaningful insight, as well as through problem-solving.  I have always emphasized talking therapy as the cornerstone of my therapeutic work.  

People can be helped through a process that encourages the growth of  psychological insight.  I approach talk therapy as an active and collaborative process that respects the psychoanalytic tradition of valuing emotionally meaningful and applicable self-understanding. Emotional growth can be seen in both the real-time moments of recognition that occur  during a session and the larger-scale changes that occur over the course of therapy.

As a physician and psychiatrist with expertise in psychopharmacology, I recognize the helpfulness of medications when indicated. 

My guiding principle is a practical and flexible approach to working out the most helpful treatment for each individual.  No single form of treatment applies to all patients, since no one method can sufficiently address the unique personality and situation of each individual.