A clinical social worker with an understanding of some of the causes that might provide the impetus for individuals to seek help and relief through the therapeutic process, such as pain, anguish, distress, despair, fear, rage, guilt, shame , humiliation, loss, and anxiety about the future.  Clinical background and psychotherapeutic specialty in the diagnosis and concomitant intervention/treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.  Theoretical orientation includes the belief that the therapist will utilize everything at his or her disposal to create change: knowledge of dynamics, the nature of defenses, behavior in real-life relationships, awareness of transference and countertransference issues, and an acknowledgement of the powerful relationship that may emerge between the therapist and client.  Also, an adherence to the Kantian imperative of never treating a person as an object; rather always respecting the special dignity and autonomy inherent in being human.