After graduating in 2000 with a Ph.D. from California School of Professional Psychology – Los Angeles (APA approved), my clinical training included rotations through inpatient psychiatric facilities, outpatient geriatric care, and day treatment for Developmentally Disabled/psychotic disordered adults.

In addition, I’ve served as adjunct faculty, teaching graduate and undergraduate level students at local universities since 2001.  A passion of mine is presenting at continuing education seminars on the integration of psychological theory in treatment, use of various conceptual approaches in inpatient/ outpatient treatment environments, and issues related to geriatric populations, as well as self-harming populations.

My current research involves development of self-harming assessment tools.