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Employment
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English Teacher in Barcelona, Spain
Outpatient Counselor at a Substance Abuse Treatment Center in East Boston
Outpatient Therapist on the cross-cultural team of a community mental health center in Salem, Massachusetts
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2003-present Anxiety Specialty Practice
I opened my private practice, doing general therapy at first. However, I became interested in anxiety disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in particular. Following a period of extensive training, I decided to specialize in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and related anxiety conditions. While OCD had remained my primary area of speciality, over the years I have expanded my clinical practice to the treatment of travel and transport agoraphobia related to panic, Fear of Flying, phobias as well as the anxiety struggles of young adults
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Education
Education
B.A. Psychology- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
M.Ed. Counseling Psychology - Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2003-2004 Training
Gail Steketee
Specialty:Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Consultant:Gail Steketee, Ph.D.
I trained privately with Dr. Gail Steketee over a period of 18 months. Dr. Steketee, a clinical researcher and then professor of psychology at Boston University, is an internationally recognized expert in obsessive compulsive disorder. During this time, I received weekly consultation and training from Dr. Steketee in the application of the cognitive approach she and colleague Sabine Wilhelm had developed for the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder.
When Dr. Steketee discontinued her consultation services, she introduced me to Dr. Kieron O'Connor- a clinical researcher and professor of psychology at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
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2005-2017 Training
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Specialty:Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Consultant:Kieron O'Connor, Ph.D.
I began to train privately with Dr. O’Connor and his associate Dr. Fred Aardema in the clinical application of the Inferential Based Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), an innovative form of Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that he had developed.
I maintained a close working relationship with both Drs. O'Connor and Aardema, visiting Montreal frequently, providing case reports for their second I-CBT clinician’s manual as well as presenting at the annual Quebec Obsessive Compulsive Foundation Conference and participating as a panelist. After the regrettable passing of Dr. O'Connor I have remained in contact with Dr. Aardema and have followed ongoing advances in I-CBT
About Me
I am originally from New York City, and lived the first 22 years of my life there. I grew up in mid-town, West Side Manhattan. Typical mid-town upbringing at that time, stickball, playgrounds in Central Park, climbing fences, watching shell games on Broadway, walking up and down 42nd, before Disney, prostitutes telling me to be a good boy and not to "get into trouble".
I left NY to travel around the US and then around Canada from living in San Fransisco to fighting forest fires in British Columbia. I subsequently moved to Boston and then to Western Massachusetts where I studied Psychology at the University of Massachusetts.
After graduation, I first worked at a residential treatment center and then with the area Latino community. My experiences with that community inspired me to move to Guatemala and enroll in a 3 month Spanish language program and then to travel and work throughout central and South America for 18 months, living in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Mexico. Soon after returning to the US, I moved to Barcelona, where, Spain, where I lived and worked for five years.
Upon returned to the US, I settled in Massachusetts, went on to complete a Masters in Counseling Psychology, while working with heroin and cocaine addicts at an outpatient counseling center. Degree in hand, I decided to become a therapist…….
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