As a practicing psychoanalyst my activities include Adult & Child Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Infant Mental Health supervision, psychoanalytic supervision, associate editorship for the Journal of Psychoanalysis Self and Context and teaching courses on development generally and development of the self throughout the lifespan. I have provided consultation to both the legal and criminal justice systems regarding the needs of infants and young children.
As a Graduate Fellow of Zero to Three, I have been a recipient, with three other Fellows, of two Policy Advocacy and Research PAR grants looking at the impact of parental cell phone use on development of very early relating and language. Other research interests include evaluating the efficacy and trends in psychoanalytic education as part of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute psychoanalytic education research group, member of the APsA DPE study group on effective strategies for treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders, chaired by William Singletary, and theoretical, clinical and social justice issues that arise from racism expressed within the transference and counter-transference during individual clinical treatment.
My clinical interests include development of mind, early development of the Self, psychoanalytic implications and influence of attachment processes throughout the lifespan, the intersection of affect and sensory processing as it impacts mutual regulation within relationships, and the unfolding of clinical process in developmentally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Currently I serve as Chair of the Child and Adolescence committee at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute as well as the Director of the Parent Child Workshops, a psychoanalytically informed playgroup for toddlers at risk for disorders of relating, communication, and play. I live and practice my profession in Chicago
