Thank you for exploring my practice website. If you are looking for psychological services, I very much encourage you to continue doing so, whether you contact me or someone else.  

I have been a clinical psychologist for more than 30 years.  Over those years, I have provided psychological and neuropsychological care to people with many different backgrounds and experiences. Following education and training in clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology, my early career was spent as a psychologist doing work in the U.S. and abroad in international human rights, focusing particularly on how these rights apply to people with disabilities.

 

I have held academic appointments in university psychology programs, a school of medicine, and schools of public health. I was formerly the Director of a clinic in an academic medical center, and have been a supervising clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist in a number of medical settings. I published more than 50 articles and book chapters on issues relating to psychology and human rights, the implications of neurodiverse conditions for psychological care, neuropsychological assessment, and methods for promoting self-awareness and self-regulation. I have been appointed to the editorial boards of seven academic journals and have served multiple times on organizational governance and advisory committees in the field. Across the years, my work has been noted in articles of the New York Times, the New Yorker, publications of the American Psychological Association, and media abroad.

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With initial support from a Contemplative Practice Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, I spent many years studying approaches for gaining awareness and self-regulation, including meditation methods, but other methods too.  I have been particularly interested in developing methods for making such practices more accessible. 

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Some of my current clinical care involves providing consultation to parents of children with neurodiverse conditions such as ADHD, Autism, neurological illness, or Learning Disability. This consultation may involve guidance regarding the nature of the condition, parent stress reduction, or options during or following K-12 education. Rather than emphasizing behavior change methods alone, I work with parents to determine how parenting relationships with children can be fostered, particularly when those relationships become frayed, and how change can emerge from improved understanding.

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I also see couples seeking improvement in their relationship. I have often worked with couples where one or both of the partners have ADHD, are on the spectrum, or are neuro-atypical in other ways.

 

Because so many people have jobs or academic pursuits that have become fraught, I frequently work with those who are experiencing or recovering from severe occupational or educational stress. 

 

While I have done many neuropsychological evaluations over the years, my focus at this point in my career is proving psychological care through psychotherapy and consultation.  

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I provide psychotherapy and consultation via telehealth in Michigan and Minnesota, the two states where I am licensed.

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If you believe you may benefit from my care, please look at the rest of my website. I offer a 15 minute free telephone consultation to further determine if the services I provide will meet your needs. If I think you would be better served by a different provider, I will tell you that. If I am not currently taking new patients, I will post that at the top of this page.