About

I’ve spent my entire adult life dedicated to helping people. It’s my passion and what gets me up in the morning.

I’ve known I wanted to help people as a career from the beginning. I graduated from Vassar College in 1995 with general and departmental honors in psychology. I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University (now at Drexel University) in 2001. I completed my predoctoral internship at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. The focus of my graduate work was severe mental illness, including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

After school, I dove into work helping our Veterans with the Department of Veterans Affairs. I worked with the VA for over eighteen years, focusing on post traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, and chronic suicidal ideation. Despite the challenging nature of this work, I loved it. Helping people overcome such difficult issues is incredibly rewarding.

Now I’ve started my own private practice. I have an office in Pittsburgh and I’m also offering online therapy to people all over Pennsylvania and Kansas. Through PsyPact, I am also available online to individuals in Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.