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.
Practice Statement
CERTIFICATIONS AND HONORS
Medical School
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-Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cum Laude
Residency
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-Menninger School of Psychiatry, Topeka Kansas. Adult and Child Psychiatry
Advanced Psychotherapy Degrees
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-Advanced Psychotherapy Program, Washington School of Psychiatry
Leadership Positions
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-Director, Attachment and Human Development Center, Washington School of Psychiatry
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-President, Inter-American Attachment Network
Faculty Positions
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-Washington School of Psychiatry
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-Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington DC
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-Instituto de Socio-psicoanlisis, Mexico, DF
Fellowships
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-Saul W. Ginsberg Fellow, Group for the Advancement Psychiatry
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-Fellow American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
License
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-Licensed in Maryland
Languages
- Fluent in English and Spanish
