I can’t imagine what my clinical practice would be like if it wasn’t for the excellent supervision I received as a graduate student, then as an associate. I continued to be supervised for a few years as I made my way through various specializations such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy and substance treatment.  I willingly returned to consultee status when I needed training in clinical hypnosis.

I knew I was getting something intensely different from many of my peers when I was in my first placement.  What I didn’t know then was that my LCSW field supervisor was a Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Supervisor of Supervisors who had trained with Jay Haley, founder of Strategic Family Therapy.  I simply had a gut feeling that what she was doing was something I wanted to learn to do. I wanted to apply that rigorous honesty, self-appraisal and scientist-practitioner approach to the technical means of doing psychotherapy and clinical supervision.  As I grew in applying those technical means I was also encouraged to develop the conscious use of self for the benefit of patients and supervisees.

So I invite you into this world, where we can learn together your current peak skills, and help you develop into a clinician who has far more skill sets when you leave supervision.  There are many paths in this journey and some of them will be well-known to me. When they aren’t, we can arrange for you to get those experiences.  I also keep an eye out for what growth you might experience as a leader and researcher and hope to be a good referral and resource for you. As I say, your presence keeps me sharper and more able than if I was practicing on my own: it’s such a pleasant opportunity to excel together. 

Over three decades I have worked many aspects of our field, in different levels of care, in privately owned practices as well as public mental health, with adults and families, and in integrated primary care working with doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and registered dieticians caring for medically and psycho-socially complex patients.  

I have been the clinical director of Genesis DWI Services since 2015, a board member of the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas since 2024, and a former delegate to the National Assembly of the National Association of Social Workers.