My competencies are multiple and mutually informing: I am an experienced educator, ordained minister, essayist, licensed psychotherapist, and spiritual director. I have extensive experience working in both congregational and community settings in New York and New England. In 2022, I affiliated with Arlington Street Church in Boston as its Community Minister for Spiritual Direction.In the past, I served as Senior Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills, acted as Managing Director of the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute, and taught on the faculties of Columbia University Teachers College (Spirituality Mind-Body Institute), Union Theological Seminary, and Fordham University. Over my many years of therapy practice, I provided clients with emotionally literate, psychologically sound, and spiritually informed psychotherapy. For a time, I worked as Curriculum Co-Chair at the Association for Spirituality & Psychotherapy and served on its Board.In my 20-odd years in ministry, I have had affiliations with the First UU Society in Brooklyn, the Community UU Congregation in White Plains, and the Community Church of New York. I also served at the denominational level as the In Care/In Covenant Coordinator for the Metro NY District for the UUA.Currently, I am Convener and Co-Chair of the Spirituality & Flourishing Working Group in the Flourishing Network at the Harvard University Human Flourishing Program. I lecture, guest-preach, and consult with various faith groups on matters related to mental health and human flourishing. The programming I now offer explores the intersections between spiritual wisdom and psychological insight. In 2023, I was a presenter at the global gathering of the Parliament of World's Religions on Chicago.An anthologized essayist, I have published articles in The Week, Beliefnet, Slate Magazine, and the Encyclopedia of Psychology & Religion. The fascination I have with narrative knowing and sacred story is long-standing. These days, I continue to contemplate their many spiritual implications across a variety of venues: educational, religious, communal, and psychotherapeutic. I also write book reviews for Presence, the quarterly journal of SDI.My special interests include: Religious Literacy, 12-Step Recovery, Trauma Studies, Feminist Theology, Transcendentalist Thought, Interfaith Dialogue, Spiritual Memoir, and Logotherapy. I have been interviewed by The New York Post, New York Magazine, and The Boston Globe. My piece ‘Like Trees: Cultivating Spiritual Practices’ is forthcoming in Praying the Poets.
Listed skills include Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Teaching, Pastoral Care, and 20 others.