Daughter of My Mother's Heart

Professor Emerita, Rutgers University, and currently in private practice in Highland Park, NJ. She received her PhD in Lifespan Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 1983 and earned a Certificate of Postdoctoral Respecialization in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1999. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Education and Human Development in Berlin, West Germany from 1982-1984. Her academic work focused on theories of development, adult development and aging, and wisdom. She began a part-time practice in 2005 and, upon retiring from Rutgers in 2009, expanded it to full-time. She works with adults of all ages. Her work is informed by a self-psychological/relational psychodynamic framework along with humanistic/existential influences. She has specialisation in working with complex trauma and dissociation, which strongly influences her therapeutic approach. She began writing poetry in the later phases of an intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy in her early 40s. Her poetry provided a means of symbolising deep emotional pain through word and rhythm. Email: