Psychotherapy

Dana believes that symptoms are messages that can help us to identify inner conflicts and unprocessed pain. She aims to help her patients uncover patterns and blind spots in their lives in the service of greater satisfaction and self-understanding.

Dana’s approach is active and supportive, and she hopes to foster autonomy in her patients by allowing them to be the directors of their own therapy process. She often works with adults and adolescents who are passing through difficult transitions or new life phases, and are struggling with anxiety, stuckness, or grief.

Dana sees children and families, often in conjunction with a Collaborative Therapeutic Assessment or extended feedback following evaluations.

Evaluations

Dana delivers thoughtful neuropsychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults. A neuropsychological evaluation is a comprehensive assessment of a person’s abilities across a range of skill areas. This process takes a deep look into a person’s strengths and weaknesses, providing rich information to inform possible diagnoses and to create a map for education, treatment, or deeper self-understanding. She is well-versed in the New York City school landscape and advises families when they are facing school-placement decisions.

Dana provides Collaborative Therapeutic Assessments to adolescents and adults. This assessment approach uses psychological testing to help people understand themselves better and find solutions to their persistent problems. 

Parent Therapy

Dana works with parents who are amidst a difficult transition, are entrenched in negative emotional or behavioral patterns with their children, or are noticing that their experiences growing up are influencing their parenting style in a way they’d like to change. She invites parents to explore their own growing up experiences and their parenting values to shape a philosophy that promotes respect and connection within their family.

Dana’s work with parents is informed by family systems and attachment theories, as well as the RIE/Respectful parenting philosophy. Dana aims to empower parents using techniques that aim to develop resilience, confidence, curiosity, and self-reliance in children by respecting who they are and where they are on their own developmental trajectory.