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Has been in full-time clinical practice for over twenty-five years. She works with adults, children and adolescents in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, couples therapy, parent guidance, family therapy and groups.

Kimberly is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine. As faculty, she has served as Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program, Chair of the Diversity Initiative, Chair of the Task Force on Race and Ethnicity, and as a member of the Education Committee. She has taught, supervised and mentored in both the psychotherapy and psychoanalytic training programs for adults, children and adolescents. While employed in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center, she was lecturer and clinical supervisor, as well as bilingual psychiatric social worker, social work instructor and faculty advisor. She has been a psychological consultant in NYC public and private schools and is a contributor to Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Disorders of Sexual Development in Childhood and the accompanying Handbook for Parents.

Kimberly has been a longtime educator on diversity issues. She has written, lectured and contributed to the training and supervision of MD, psychology, social work clinicians and graduate students in this area. She has provided clinical services to adults, children and families whose struggles relate to issues of race, ethnicity, culture and identity. She specializes in various areas related to identity and their manifestations in child and adulthood. She practices from an approach that begins where you are, your experiences, your story. A successful working alliance begins with being seen and heard.

Education and Clinical Training

  • Princeton University, BA
  • Columbia University, MSSW
  • Union Theological Seminary in NY, MDiv (Social Ethics)
  • The Psychoanalytic Institute Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (now PANY), Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program
  • The Psychoanalytic Institute Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (now PANY), Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program
  • The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (now PANY), Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program
  • DCSW, Diplomate in Clinical Social Work
  • Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, PsyaD