 I have been interested in psychology since I was a teenager. I completed a BSc in Psychology at University College London (UCL), and received a research scholarship to write a PhD at St. John's College, Cambridge (see picture to the left). I studied children's language development, memory skills and reading ability. I worked with children in many different schools across the UK and became very awares of the importance of the role of education and teachers in a child's development.
After completing my PhD, I worked in a number of post-doctorate settings, including the Institute of Psychiatry,a world-class center for mental health research, where I managed a large-scale study of the genetics of depression and anxiety. This position was a great opportunity to learn more about psychopathology and its biological and genetic foundations.
In 1999, I started my second Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) at UCL in which I had the privilege to work with and learn from a wide array of talented clinicians. I worked with adults (aged 18-65), older adults (i.e., older than 65) and neuropsychology (i.e., cognitive and memory skills),  people with learning disabilities (mental retardation and developmental delay), and with children, adolescents and their families. My thesis was on the topic of shame in teenagers, and how tendency to feeling ashamed might be inherited. Shame is a powerful emotional force that can disrupt relationships and interfere with the healing potential of talking therapies.
On completing my training in 2002, I worked in a children and families service in Harrow, a suburb on the outskirts of London. I saw a range of children, adolescents and their families, and received further training on Solution Focused Techniques.
In 2005, I moved to New York and took up a position at a large mental health service provider (www.fegs.org) as  Director for Performance Measurement and Outcome Research. This job provided me with a chance to work on the big picture of how mental health services can be best provided, and to try to answer the critical question: how can we know if a person has really been helped by a talking therapy? I believe that the answers to this question need to be the foundation for therapeutic encounters of all kinds. I also believe in the importance of monitoring and reflecting about whether the therapeutic process is really working. I also obtained a New York State license to practice as a clinical psychologist.
My area of work includes: children, adolescents and their families, parenting issues, and young adults (in what is now called in the literature: emerging adulthood). You can read more about the approaches I use and previous clinical experience.
In 2007, I moved to Jerusalem, and in addition to my clinical practice, I work at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (http://brookdale.jdc.org.il/default.asp) as a researcher on a variety of health and social policy projects.
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I am a UK-trained clinical psychologist, with a New York State License I
work with children, adolescents, families, parents and young adults,
and the purpose of this page is to give you more information about
who I am and what I do. I am currently living in Jerusalem, with my wife and two young children. (Here is a picture of me and my daughter enjoying Jerusalem snow!)
 _____________________________ I hope that you enjoy what you read on this website. Please do contact me with any comments or suggestions.
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