About Tom
Tom was trained and certified by the American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York City. He is certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique and is a member of Alexander Technique International. Tom is the Chair of the Alexander Technique Department at The New school for Drama (formerly the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University) and is on the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Juilliard School. He has served as the Chair of the Board of Directors and President of the American Center for the Alexander Technique. He completed a two-year psychotherapy training program in Social Therapy — a psychotherapeutic approach that helps people, through performance, to reinitiate human development — at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy. He also studied with Carl Stough, the developer of ‘Breathing Coordination,’ an approach that creates a more organic breathing process. Tom works with performers, business people, athletes and people suffering with chronic pain, asthma, emphysema and other respiratory ailments.
