I am a licensed master social worker (LMSW) providing psychotherapy for adults at Erika Malm Collective, and a social worker at NYU Langone Hospital. I previously provided psychotherapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) under the supervision of board-certified psychiatrist Gita Vaid, MD. I earned my MSW with a concentration in Integrated Health from Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare. During my graduate studies, I held an internship at the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Substance Use Research Lab, where I participated in federally funded clinical research protocols investigating pharmacological and mindfulness-based interventions for substance-related disorders and qualitative studies related to the ceremonial use of psychedelics. Prior to NYSPI, I provided supportive counseling for unhoused people living with HIV and substance use disorders in Brooklyn. I received postgraduate training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy from the Ketamine Training Center and have received additional training in Emotion Focused Family Therapy.
I was formerly a journalist and editor with a focus on health, science and culture. From 2014 to 2018, I was a senior editor at Psychology Today, where I worked on feature stories related to mental health, behavioral science, neuroscience and social psychology, as well as personal essays and interviews. I was also a reporter for The City section of The New York Times and contributed to the Styles, Dining, Metro, Arts, Real Estate and Travel sections. My writing has appeared in Slate, Salon, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, The Christian Science Monitor, Monocle, Babble, The Forward, Self, Real Simple, City Pages, The Atlantic and The Washington Post as well as several anthologies. I was the founder of Heeb Magazine in 2002, though the independent publishing endeavors of which I'm most fond are the Jewish punk zine Mazeltov Cocktail and the Riot Grrrl zine Gogglebox, which I created in the mid-'90s. I have been an adjunct professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, received a Circle of Excellence Bronze Medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for my article Trip To the Doctor, and have been awarded fellowships from the National Press Foundation and the Association of Health Care Journalists.