Experience

Psychologist, Psychological Services of Jenkintown, LLC, (February 2009 to
Present)

1. Provide individual and group therapy
2. Psychological Assessment

Psychologist, Advanced Counseling Services, Bethlehem, PA(July 2008 to
Present)

1. Provide individual therapy
2. Psychological Assessment

Staff Psychologist, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital, Psychology
Department, Allentown, PA (8/2005 – 6/2008)

1. Facilitated individual psychotherapy and psycho-educational groups for inpatients, outpatients, and family members.  Perform psychological consultation, psychodiagnostic evaluations, and ongoing cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals and families with functional impairments due to physical trauma or chronic illnesses.
2. Provided biofeedback to general outpatients.  Populations treated include headache, mild brain injury/post traumatic headache and chronic pain.
3. Member of interdisciplinary treatment teams which included Rehabilitation Medicine,
4. Nursing, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and other Medical and
5. Rehabilitation Specialists.
6. Treatment populations included Chronic Pain, Headache, Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, Stroke Rehabilitation and Neurorehabilitation.
7. Provided supervision for student interns/externs.
8. (8/2005 – 8/2006) Served as staff psychologist for Comprehensive Outpatient Pain Rehabilitation Program. Facilitated individual psychotherapy and psycho-educational groups for program patients. 

Associate Research Scientist/Therapist, Institute for Trauma and Stress, NYU School of Medicine New York, NY (9/2004-5/2005)

1. Provided ongoing weekly cognitive behavioral therapy (16-20 sessions) for clients with PTSD secondary to childhood abuse (physical, sexual, assault) and clients with PTSD secondary to mass violence (9/11) in the context of grant funded research studies.
2. Conducted comprehensive structured psychological assessments in the context grant funded research studies.

Therapist, Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, Albany, NY (8/1997-8/2001)

• Served as outpatient therapist for clients presenting with various health and anxiety disorders, including headache, chronic pain, IBS and PTSD.  Treatment included cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, and relaxation.
• Conducted comprehensive structured psychological assessments in the context grant funded research studies.

Teaching and Related Experience

Course Instruction:

• Independent Study in Behavioral Medicine, Psych 397 (Fall, 1999) State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY

• Introduction to Psychology, Psychology 101a (Discussion Section) (Spring, 1999) State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY

• Seminar Series in Behavioral Medicine and Traumatic Stress (Fall 1998 to Spring 2001)/Guest Lecturer, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY

Supervisory Activities:

• Internship Supervisor (Fall 2005 to Spring 2008) Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital

• Senior Thesis Research Advisor (Summer 2003 to Spring 2004)Mount Sinai School of Medicine

• Dissertation Reader (Fall 2004) Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University

• Assessment Supervisor (Summer 1998 to Summer 2001)      Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, Albany, NY

Invited Presentations:

• Presentation on biofeedback to headache sufferers as part of Lehigh Valley Hospital Headache Week (June, 2007), Lehigh Valley Hospital, Headache Center, Allentown, PA
  
  
• Presentation to Stroke Education Group (including patients, family and hospital staff) entitled “Psychological adjustment to stroke”(October, 2005), Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital, Allentown, PA

• Colloquia, entitled “Posttraumatic Headache: Psychological Sequelae and Treatment Outcome” (March 2002), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Biobehavioral Medicine Program, New York, NY

• Colloquia, entitled “Psychological Issues in Posttraumatic Headache” (October, 2001), Department of Psychology, University at Albany, Albany, NY

• Colloquia, entitled “Headache activity and psychological functioning in menstrual and non-menstrual headache sufferers” (September, 1999) Department of Psychology, University at Albany, Albany, NY