I am a psychoanalytically trained, consultation-liaison (psychosomatic medicine) psychiatrist, in private practice since 2003.

I worked in hospital settings (emergency room, medical-surgical floor and inpatient psychiatric), in outpatient clinics and in outpatient intensive outpatient programs.​​​​

 

While my formal training provided an abundance of great ingredients for my professional life, part of the personal touch, part of the the colors and nuances come from my experiences growing up and living up to graduation from medical school in Romania, then immigrating to US.

 

Personal history exerts an influence on one's views of what is mental health, what is normality, what is sanity. It also influences ideas about which therapeutic approaches make sense, which would be detrimental and which may be distractions perceived as helpful.

 

Having lived in wildly different economic situations and political systems stirred my interest in the literature on liberty and tyranny and in economics, excellent complements to my formal training.

 

​​​In my more than 20 years of practice, I have repeatedly found that my patients are my best teachers. This has motivated me throughout my career to maintain a practice centered on the depth of communication and insight necessary for an effective healing relationship.

 

I’ve chosen this path rather than succumbing to the pressures of a psychiatric industry that incentivizes short visits, snap judgments, and prescriptions as the first-line treatment for symptom clusters, often with little understanding of their causes, origins, or functions.