Welcome to my website. Since I provide a range of services I have organized them into general categories that you will find highlighted in the text. By clicking on any link  you will be directed to a page with more detailed information. You may also simply go to EXPLORE to  find the categories listed there.

But before exploring, you may wish to learn more about me and my practice(s). Though I now have been  a licensed clinical psychologist for over 30 years, my interest in the process of learning precedes that. Following graduation from Knox College in 1972, I joined an innovative early education and mental health initiative in Appalachia Georgia. The required tasks: designing both curriculum and the physical space, consulting and collaborating with teachers, parents and school systems, weaving together educational and psychotherapeutic interventions into interactive learning strategies within a unique cultural setting continue to closely resemble the blueprint for my current psychotherapy and consulting practices some 40 years later.

My years working with children and their families both as an educator and as a mental health provider have deeply influenced my PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE with adults. My adult practice essentially began in 1991 after I received  my Psy.D. from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. It was at this time that I also began a specialty in the field of trauma psychology. The Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, MA was one of the first hospital-based programs to recognize the impact of trauma and to offer such training.  I began as an intern, held a variety of additional roles including, Coordinator of  both Group Services and Consultation Services, Co-Director of the Political Trauma Services Network,  and eventually Director of the Program.  During my tenure as Director, I  introduced the arts into both the training and  practice and  served as a founding organizer of the arts and social action program, Violence Transformed, which influenced the development of a summer "Resiliency Institute".

Although I continue to offer services that address the impact of acts of violence on individuals, groups and communities including  FORENSIC CONSULTATIONS,  I view violence as a public health concern that requires intervention on a larger social scale.  To support this,  I transferred from the Department of Psychiatry to the Department of Community Health Improvements,  serving as Director of Victim Services and Director of the Mindfit Resiliency Project, a pioneering mindfulness training program for law enforcement officers.  My work has led me to travel extensively in this and other countries offering trauma training to organizations working with refugees in flight and victims of natural and man made disasters.

Retired from my hospital-based work,  I currently maintain a private practice in Cambridge Massachusetts, am the director of a consultation and training group, Connect Associates; an Affiliate of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion; Founder of NATURE CONNECTIONS and provide trauma expertise for civil and capital legal cases.