Working from a foundation of feminist psychological and psychosocial theories, I then draw from Transpersonal, Humanist, Jungian, Psychodynamic, Family Systems, Psychosynthesis, Ecopsychology, Buddhism, and Mind-Body Paradigms in my method and approach to counseling. 

Psychotherapy sessions are now being offered in an office in downtown Northampton on the bus route and in a tower room a half hour west of Northampton surrounded by forest, marshland, distant mountains,  endless sky, and the songs of the birds and the wind.

FeministTherapyOnline.com  has transitioned from global to local!


I offer a counseling method which I believe has enormous potential and numerous advantages.an Clients utilize email correspondence, journaling, dream-work, autobiography, free form, and other personal writings which they send to me before follow-up sessions. In the succeeding session we meet together to discuss, dive into, extend, analyze and further work with weekly session writings. This combination of writing with in-person, or Skype sessions, is a powerful synthesis of solitary self-motivated depth work and one on one therapeutic process. 

How frequently we schedule sessions (biweekly, weekly, bimonthly, monthly) depends on your needs. 
There is no running away from this problem. In the last century, doctors called it housewife neurasthenia and recommended lots of bed rest. Sheila Rowbotham has called it the problem of being "oppressed by an overwhelming sense of not being there." Betty Friedan saw it in the tired, empty women of the Feminine Mystique - and called it "the problem that has no name." It is the problem of Woman as Body: of suffering from an overexposure of physical visibility as a body combined with an impoverishment of genuine recognition as a person… Whatever one calls this problem of feminine identity, it is the stuff of which female symptomatology, nervous breakdowns, and madness are made. 

— Miriam Greenspan

Feminist counseling

Feminist counseling never loses sight of the fact that women are individuals within society and that women also make up a class of people within each society. No matter what your ethnicity, race, religion, or class, you are always female. In our work together I will place you and your struggles into the specifics of your own culture and individual life experiences all the while never forgetting the various consequences of being female on your psyche and daily life.

Problems I can help with

Here are just a few of the problems I can help you resolve:
  • Do you need to someone to talk with? Does a feminist therapist make sense for this "conversation"?
  • Do you struggle with feelings of shame, fear, self-depreciation and negation, depression, sadness?
  • Are you cut off from your emotions or do you have a hard time knowing what you are feeling?
And many others. Click "Learn More" to see how I can help

Who I am

I am a feminist psychotherapist with a B.A. in Sociology, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, and a lifetime of experience dealing with women and girls in pain and conflict.

I am in my early 60s, a Jewish poet, bibliophile, artist, singer, dancer, and lover of animals and the natural world. I live on the eastern seaboard of North America.