Services

Hybrid Treatment

I am able to offer in-person visits, telepsychiatry visits through Zoom, or a combination of both. Telepsychiatry can only be conducted with patients physically located in New York or New Jersey. All treatment whether in-person or virtual is HIPAA compliant and every effort is made to protect your health information.

Brief Phone Consultation

A 10- to 15-minute free consultation will be held for all new patients to briefly discuss psychiatric history and to arrange a formal evaluation. Neither this consultation nor the initial diagnostic evaluation establishes a doctor-patient relationship. This relationship will be established if both parties agree to pursue treatment after the diagnostic evaluation.

Initial Diagnostic Psychiatric Evaluation

Individual Treatment:

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

I provide a comprehensive diagnostic psychiatric evaluation that is split into a 60-minute session followed by a 45-minute session, typically one week apart. These sessions allow me to gain an understanding of your current symptoms, past psychiatric and medical history, developmental history, and treatment goals. As a part of the evaluation, we will discuss diagnostic impressions and treatment options together, and decide whether we will continue working together. Completion of the formal consultation is not a guarantee of future treatment.

Combined Treatment:

If after our diagnostic evaluation we decide to work together, I offer psychodynamic psychotherapy, which involves one to two 45-minute sessions per week. Treatment is open-ended and you are encouraged to speak your mind as freely as possible.

In some cases, we may find that medications can be an appropriate addition to the psychotherapy, both to help alleviate distressing symptoms, and to enable further exploration in the psychotherapy itself.

Psychopharmacological Treatment:

I also offer psychopharmacological treatment focused on medication management, with monthly sessions. This may be a good fit for patients who prefer not to meet weekly, or who are already working with another therapist. In these sessions, I will prescribe and adjust medications, and monitor the risks, benefits, and potential side effects of these medications. These sessions are also 45-minutes to give me an opportunity to understand each individual and to contextualize the role of medications in their life.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis consists of 3-5 weekly sessions and is open-ended. This work offers the space and time to more deeply explore the patterns, internal conflicts and relational dynamics that are out of awareness, and that strongly affect self-esteem, sense of self and relationships. Psychoanalysis is a powerful treatment modality, but it is not for everyone and requires a thorough evaluation prior to starting. If this is of interest to you, please let me know so that we can discuss feasibility and further details. As I am a candidate undergoing psychoanalytic training, I will be consulting regularly with experienced psychoanalysts at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY).