Experience and Background

Selected Clinical Experience
I have trained and worked in various settings, including:

•  a university-based mental health clinic 
•  community mental health clinics in rural and urban settings
•  residential drug rehabilitation units for adolescents and adults
• a hospital-based day treatment program for adults (MICA - Mentally Impaired Chemical Abuse)
•  a private center serving children and adolescents with learning disabilities
• private practice
  

I have helped people with various needs. In addition, I have received specialized training in treating:

•  behavior and mood problems
• substance abuse
• sexual assault
• learning disabilities

Selected Research

My research background is in: 

• domestic violence
• mother-child attachment and sibling communication
• race, depression, and family communication in teenagers
• sexual assault treatment and prevention
• parent involvement in the classroom
• student involvement in the Individualized Education Plan process
  

Other Professional Positions Held

• Clinical Director of A Home Within - Brooklyn, a not-for-profit group that provides long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for foster youth at no charge 

• NYU Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate-level course on mental illness in children and adolescents and the art of diagnosis

• Consultant/teacher

  • Guest lecturer on child and adolescent psychotherapy to graduate students at NYU
  • Guest lecturer on group therapy to graduate students at NYU
  • Guest lecturer on psychology and the nature of psychotherapy to adolescent foster youth writing for Represent Magazine

Education

California State Licensed Psychologist PSY 24114

February 2011

New York State Licensed Psychologist #015999
July 2004

Post-Doctoral Training in Neuropsychological Testing and 
Cognitive Remediation of Learning Disabilities
July 2003 - July 2004
      Brooklyn Learning Center

Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology
August 2003
      Ohio University Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
      Specialty Track: Child and Adolescent Psychology

Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction in Psychology 
May 1998                                                         
      University of Michigan