I earned my undergraduate degree in psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, several years after moving to Israel from upstate New York. I later returned to the US for my doctoral degree in clinical psychology, which I obtained at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco - a graduate program accredited by the American Psychological Association. I am registered as a psychologist in California and hold the Israeli clinical psychology license, issued by the Health Ministry.

I have practiced professional psychology in a variety of settings, including an outpatient clinic, geriatric clinic, university counseling center, acute psychiatric care facility and an occupational rehabilitation center for people suffering from mental health problems and addictions. More recently, I directed the psychological services at the medical rehabilitation center Ganim in Gedera and taught in the psychotherapy program at Reidman College and at the Maagalim Psychotherapy Institute in Tel Aviv. Currently I am teaching in the state-accredited postgraduate program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Yissumim Kliniim School of Psychotherapy in Bat Hefer, and am a psychoanalytic candidate at the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis in New Jersey. I have a long-standing interest in Buddhist psychology and mindfulness, and have attended many meditation retreats over the years. I write academic articles on topics of culture, gender, clinical theory, couples therapy and history of psychoanalysis, and have recently published a book with Routledge