TRAINING AND BACKGROUND

2001 –

Treat adults using mindful, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral methods.

7/1995 - 7/2006        

• Social Work Intern 

• Social Worker

• Senior Social Worker 

• Field Instructor for social work students (NYU)

•  Used pycho-dynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches. 

• Introduced mindfulness as part of a treatment protocol for panic disorder. 

• Facilitator in the Loss and Bereavement program for children

JBFCS is a training agency. Trained in:

• Time-effective treatment of the couple

• Time-effective treatment of the adult

• Family of origin seminar

• Family therapy

• Child therapy

• Sexual identity issues for youth

• Treating children of holocaust survivors

• CBT interventions with children and parents

• Grace in dying (New York Insight meditation center)

• Cognitive behavioral therapy and behavior therapy

• Personality theory

• Advanced group therapy specialization

• Supervision of group practice

• Differential Therapeutics

• Trauma treatment

• Violence and trauma: Treatment of abused children and their families

• Violence and trauma: interventions with adults

• Secondary trauma and systems of social support

• Demonstration of clinical risk management model

• Recognizing and engaging the addicted client

• Diversity issues in time-effective treatment

• Beyond cultural diversity: moving along the road to delivering culturally competent services

• Impact of racism in clients’ lives: implications for effective service delivery

• Quality time-effective interventions in a managed care environment

• Traumatic memory restructuring

• Putting overwhelming feelings in their place (NYSSCSW)

• Clinical entrepreneurship in changing times (NASW)

• Treatment and development of emotional literacy in adolescent boys (NYSSCSW)

• Crisis counseling assistance and training program (post 9/11)

• Spirituality, psychotherapy and healing: the transformative connection (National Institute for the Psychotherapies)

• Duke University – AB Degree  1966 (top ¼ of class)

• Columbia University – MBA Degree 1968

• Fordham University – MSW Degree– 1995 (3.95 GPA)

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the highest master’s level in New York State: LCSW R

• National Association of Social Workers (NASW) – Diplomate in Clinical Social Work

• Father of 3: College teacher, Psychotherapist, Middle-school Teacher

• Married in 24 year relationship