ABOUT ME

I have had the privilege of meeting a multitude of different people throughout my career and being exposed to an unimaginable amount of variation in understanding of the human condition. To this day have never, ever had a second thought about what I knew my calling was to be. I have been a therapist for about 10 years, and have genuinely enjoyed watching my clients succeed, bearing witness to their most personal thoughts and feelings, and being able to be present with them during the most challenging times in their lives. To be honest, I have also found that perhaps one of the most rewarding aspects of working with my clients is the lessons that they teach me about my own self (not least of which is that transformative processes don’t happen inside a vacuum), as they keep me open-minded, naturally curious, able to acknowledge my own limits and most significantly, remind me to never stop asking questions. This is the essence of "the search for higher ground", and why I chose to name my practice after this.

When I was in my teens, I had read the book, “Girl, Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen and remember feeling substantially different after reading the chapter entitled, “Mind vs. Brain”. I intuitively knew that the interpretation by the mind of the brains’ messaging (with the added complexity of ‘emotion’),  was likely one of the single most interesting aspects of being alive. This, I knew, was stimulating enough to never feel bored, and dynamic enough to keep me on my toes and could easily be something I could see myself spending a majority of my day talking about. This was going to be where I could make a career.

Initially, I thought that this was best explored via the practice of medicine, but I found what I was looking for in pursuit of my master’s degree in clinical Social Work at Yeshiva University after studying Pre-Medicine, Psychology, Chemistry and Philosophy during my undergraduate years at Hofstra University.

Neo and Satoshi, Office Managers