From Marketing Researcher to Clinical Social Worker
I’ve always felt a strong pull towards mental health and helping people.
Presently, as a psychotherapist certified in EMDR and trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I help individuals overcome various issues such as: life/career transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. Please see my therapy site for more information.
I’m also a mental health writer at PsychCentral, and the editor/owner of this blog, which serves as a career development resource for social workers and mental health professionals.
Just prior to beginning my social work career, I was a project director in the marketing research field, where I managed studies that helped firms position or optimize new products or services. But even there, as well as further back with my undergraduate courses and MBA in marketing, I was always drawn to psychology and understanding the human side of business.
So, when the economy plummeted, and my employer suffered financial difficulties, I followed my heart and returned to school to earn a Master of Social Work (MSW), preparing me to make a difference in another way, one that feels right at this point of my career.
Having graduated from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work in the Fall of 2011, I’ve since become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)in New York State, a Certified Financial Social Worker (CFSW) and earned a certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice from NYU, and a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Training Institute for Mental Health.
While consulting for the Center for Financial Social Work, I had the opportunity to co-author an article for the Encyclopedia of Social Work, and co-present at the 2016 New York Conference of the National Association of Social Worker’s Conference about Financial Social Work. Lastly, while consulting at the University of Buffalo’s School of Social Work, I had the opportunity to be interviewed for its InSocialWork podcast and teach a class on social media.
