A native of Los Angeles, I earned my B.A. in Political Science from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1990.

I earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 1999, after completing an internship at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. In 2000 I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology for the Summit County court system in northeastern Ohio.

I relocated with my family to Portland in 2000, working for over a year for Older Adults Services at Lifeworks Northwest. During that time I became licensed as a psychologist in Oregon. From 2001 to April 2007, I worked at Wildwood Psychiatric Resource Center, an interdisciplinary group practice in Beaverton that provides a broad range of counseling services, including specializing in pregnancy and postpartum related psychiatric disorders.

I currently work in private practice, with office locations in Portland and Beaverton. In my forensic work, I conduct both criminal and civil forensic evaluations, for referral questions including aid and assist (competency), criminal responsibility (sanity), pre-sentencing (criminal mitigation), personal injury, workers comp, parental fitness, and risk assessment. In my work as a therapist, I specialize in helping women who are coping with pregnancy and postpartum depression and anxiety. I also treat adolescents and a general adult population, in the areas of depression, anxiety, grief counseling, trauma recovery, life transitions, relationship issues, perinatal loss, and stress management.