My Background and Training

I am clinical psychologist— I earned my master’s degree in psychology from Binghamton University/State University of New York and my doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia.

During graduate school, I began seeing clients during my second year (2015), and worked within multiple training clinics including the Nia Project (https://med.emory.edu/departments/psychiatry/nia/index.html).

I then completed my clinical psychology internship at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System and my postdoctoral fellowship in psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery at Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. From there, I joined Brown University Health and worked with the Brown University Health Recovery Center, the Young Adult Behavioral Health Program (https://www.brownhealth.org/centers-services/young-adult-outpatient-psychiatry), the Stride Clinic at Bradley Hospital (https://www.brownhealth.org/centers-services/bradley-outpatient-services/stride-clinic), and then the Rhode Island Partial Hospital Program, where I have worked for the past three years (https://www.brownhealth.org/centers-services/adult-partial-hospital-programs/rhode-island-hospital-program).

My clinical training in graduate school and through fellowship focused on providing recovery-oriented, evidence-based care to individuals with diagnoses of serious mental illness and dual diagnoses, as well as early identification and evidence-based interventions for young adults in the early stages of psychosis.

I also participated in research on subjects including emotion regulation, the underpinnings of the stress-vulnerability model of psychosis development, and the risk factors for psychosis. I have co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and have contributed to book chapters.

I am member of the American Psychological Association and the Rhode Island Psychological Association, and in the past have also been a member of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, the International Early Psychosis Association: Early Intervention in Mental Health, and the North America CBT for Psychosis Network, among other professional organizations.