My professional training began at Columbia University in New York where I earned an MSSW.  As soon as I completed the program I worked at the Center for Life Enrichment and Renewal, a pastoral counseling center. Prior to Columbia I had begun a training in pastoral counseling at a center affiliated with the Institutes of Religion and Health, and once I completed the MSSW I did the second part of that program. I was very interested in the interface between psychology and spirituality, and still am.  Next I attended the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and trained as a family therapist. I worked with Ilana Rubenfeld and studied her body/mind method.  Later, I attended the C. G. Jung Institute of New York to become a Jungian psychoanalyst.  There I later taught and became its president. For many years I was a clinical instructor at the Child Study Center at Yale University, part of the School of Medicine, where I taught and supervised post-graduate fellows.