Background

Thank you for visiting my website. I use my training as a licensed clinical psychologist with 26 years of post-doctoral experience to assist you and your family in the college admissions process. I utilize a "positive psychology" model that highlights individual strengths. My extensive background in psychological assessment and counseling with pre-teens, adolescents, adults and families enables me to establish rapport quickly, develop a profile of your core strengths, and help you to translate who you are onto a college application. This puts you in control in determining your best college matches.

In addition to assisting you in the college application process, I offer a self care program designed to foster and maintain your health and effectiveness during the college admissions process, your subsequent college years and later in life. I am an expert in the treatment of eating disorders, and have treated compulsive overeaters, bulimics and anorexics for 28 years. I know a great deal about eating behaviors, nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene and stress management. My objectives are to help you with placement in the optimum college setting, and to enable you to find fulfillment in school, work and play.

My educational background is:

Ph.D., 1982, Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University
M.A., 1980, Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University
B.A., 1978, Duke University


* Positive Psychology and the College Application Process *

I will help you to:

Assess your strengths, personality and interests using tools available only to clinical psychologists

Determine your core strengths and examples of how they stand out

Identify specific academic programs and campus settings that meet your needs and best enable you to build on your core strengths

Convey an understanding of your core strengths in your personal statements and essays

Present your academic and extracurricular activities in the most positive way

Enhance your application by capitalizing on your core strengths

Prepare for on-campus and alumni interviews