Biography
I graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelors degree in sociology but had little clarity about a career path. I found my passion for clinical psychology while working in a hospital on Guam writing grants and living with my husband in a little village with the Guamanian people. I was exposed to clinical psychology in practice in the very busy outpatient clinic, had a chance to promote mental health and reduce stigma as we gave talks to skeptical remote villagers.
I attended graduate schools while raising a family. I earned a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology at Loyola University in Baltimore and a doctoral degree in counseling psychology from New York University. Early on my clinical training came from volunteering for years as an extern in a busy outpatient clinic at a local community hospital in Connecticut and later completed a rigorous internship at West Haven VA Medical Center in New Haven CT. I earned a position in a post doctoral fellowship at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk CT working in all outpatient psychiatric services.
I opened a private practice in 1999 following several years as a staff psychologist for a local hospital and also a brief period in a university counseling center. The practice is focused on adults of all ages who have not been able to make things right for themselves. Depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, aging, college students coping with significant mental health problems, stress, trauma, adaptation to change of all kinds are the conversations that happen in my practice.
