If you are troubled by anxiety, worries, intrusive thoughts or compulsive behaviors, I want you to know that there are very effective treatments for these problems. These symptoms can be overwhelming and make life a struggle, but I can work with you to reclaim your life and live it with joy.

I am a clinical psychologist with 20+ years of experience working with obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders, and depression. These are some of the specific disorders I treat:

Obsessive compulsive disorders

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and other body image disturbances
• Body focused repetitive behaviors (e.g., trichotillomania, excoriation)
• Hoarding
• Health anxiety

Other anxiety disorders

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  
• Social AnxietyPanic Disorder
• Phobias including Agoraphobia

Unlike many clinicians, I have extensive experience treating patients with BDD and severe, chronic OCD. I am an internationally recognized expert in body dysmorphic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and other obsessive-compulsive (OC) spectrum disorders.

For over a dozen years, I conducted research on the pathophysiology and treatment of OC spectrum disorders as the senior psychologist in Dr. Eric Hollander's Compulsive and Impulsive Disorders Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. As a member of the Medical School faculty, my responsibilities included training and supervising postdoctoral psychologists and psychiatry residents in the diagnosis and cognitive behavioral treatment for these disorders. I also served as the Director of Psychological Services for Mt Sinai’s Compulsive and Impulsive Disorders Center of Excellence.

I am now seeing patients in private practice in New York City. My affiliation with Mount Sinai continues I am on the clinical faculty of their Icahn School of Medicine and continue to train psychiatry residents and consult on the treatment of OC spectrum and anxiety disorders.

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