I did my undergraduate work at Yale University where I got a B.A. in psychology in 1975 and went on to get a doctorate in psychology in 1990. As I got older I felt a need to deepen and explore my spiritual self. I also wanted to expand the ways I could be of service in people’s lives. This led me to pursue a rabbinic career. I enrolled Hebrew Union College in 2000 and was ordained as a rabbi in 2008. During those years I was also introduced to the practice of meditation and mindfulness. In my life and in the lives of my clients I witnessed the transformative power of those practices to help people realize greater feelings of peace, wholeness and satisfaction. Along with my personal meditation practice, I began to lead meditation groups and teach meditation, and have integrated the principles of meditation and mindfulness into my therapeutic work.