I am a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with more than 35 years of experience in the Washington DC area. I have a psychotherapy-based practice, but will use medications as needed. I work with adolescents and adults and also counsel couples. My style of working is based on empathic understanding and careful listening. Effective psychotherapy is based on being able to establish a clear focus on issues that bring people to seek help, identifying past and present coping patterns that may contribute to the problems, and establishing a safe place and good therapeutic alliance with my patients. I blend psychodynamic, cognitive and emotional self-regulating techniques in my clinical work.