Background

Credentials

Over five decades of integrated study and practice across psychoanalysis, art therapy, hypnosis, and astrology.

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Psychoanalysis

  • PhD, Psychoanalysis
  • Licensed Psychoanalyst (LP)
  • Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst (NCPsyA)
  • Graduate, Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA)
  • Executive Director, Institute for Expressive Analysis (2002โ€“2008)
  • Director of Education, Institute for Expressive Analysis (1996โ€“2002)
  • Supervisor and Control Analyst, Institute for Expressive Analysis
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Art Therapy

  • Registered/Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
  • Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT)
  • Master's in Art Therapy and Creativity Development (MPS)
  • MARI Mandala Assessment: Practitioner and Teacher (maricreativeresources.com)
  • The Projective Drawing Institute, Emmanuel Hammer (House-Tree-Person)
  • NY Connection for the Diagnostic Drawing Series (diagnosticdrawingseries.com)
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Hypnosis

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Astrology

  • Professional astrologer since 1973
  • NCGR-PAA Level IV Counseling Astrologer โ€” National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR)
  • Steering Committee, Association of Astrology and Psychology (1985โ€“88)
  • Faculty, New York NCGR for over 30 years
  • The Association for Astrological Networking (AFAN) Steering Committee (1998โ€“2002)
  • Co-author (with M.J. Abadie) of the best-selling book Love Planets (1990, Simon and Schuster)

Integrated Research

Combining my psychoanalytic, astrological, and art therapy knowledge, I have been researching and studying the relationship between art elements (form, line, color, composition), archetype, and psychoanalytic dynamics (Jungian and neo-Freudian), with astrology for over 30 years.