Training and Experience

I completed my Masters in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College – Columbia University in 2014. While living in New York City, I worked as a research assistant at both the Ackerman Institute for the Family and NYU’s Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies.

In 2021 I obtained my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. My primary training emphasis focused on Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic models of treatment with adults and couples in various outpatient settings and community clinics. My secondary emphasis is in Addiction Medicine which I completed during both doctoral and post-doctoral training. I have decades of experience working in the field of LGBTQ+ Mental Health. Alongside clinical training as a psychotherapist, I acquired training in Psychodiagnostic Assessment for ADHD, Learning Disabilities, and Personality Testing. My dissertation explored the theoretical trajectory of psychoanalysis across the span of the last century and integrated these findings with contemporary writing on long-term cross-racial therapies.

More recently, I worked with the Intensive Outpatient and Case Management Team at Kaiser Permanente. While there, I facilitated various groups including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Co-Dependence in Substance Use Disorders, Substance Use Recovery and Harm-Reduction, Social Skills, Sleep Interventions, and Severe and Persistent Mental Illness groups. I transitioned to full-time private practice in the Spring of 2024.