Qualifications

My experience is comprehensive and my treatment interventions are very much based on the needs of the client. Although my orientation is modern analytic I also use cognitive, behavioral and interpersonal techniques.

Since 1990 I have served as a consultant to P.S.72, an elementary school in Spanish Harlem. Each year a stipend from the Bonnie Jacobson Training Grant is awarded a fellow in the school psychology doctoral program at New York University. This school serves new immigrants mostly from Spanish speaking countries, welfare families, and many other struggling New York families.

I have been a consultant to the Ministry of Welfare and Education in Israel for the past twenty years. As one of the founders of ELEM, an organization that works with youth in distress, we consult on problems faced by teens at risk.

I have been quoted by newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, London Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, L.A. Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vogue Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Elle and many others. I have been on numerous television and radio shows including Oprah, Montel Williams, Ricki Lake, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jesse Raphael, Donahue, and various morning news and Sunday morning news programs.

I am a member of The American Psychological Association, American Group Psychotherapy and Eastern Group Psychotherapy. I am certified by the State of New York as a clinical psychologist, since 1973 and also a certified group psychotherapist since 1985.

I received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1971, in the department of applied psychology. Currently I serve as an adjunct professor in this same department. Since 1980 I have been the director of the New York Institute for Psychological Change. This is a collaboration of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, with a variety of specialties.

I have been working in the field of psychology since 1965. My private practice began in 1971.