I received my bachelors degree in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University, with a minor degree at the College of Fine Arts in piano performance. Following receipt of my undergraduate degree, I worked as a clinical research coordinator at the Pediatric Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program located at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

I completed my doctoral degree in clinical psychology with a specialization in neuroscience at Temple University, where my research interests focused on identifying biological and neural markers of non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents. My dissertation examined deficits in neural reward processing as correlates of self-injury, utilizing multiple methods, including resting-state and functional MRI.

While fulfilling my Ph.D., I held clinical externships in the Temple University Psychological Services Center, the Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Fairmount Behavioral Health System Psychiatric Inpatient Hospital on the Child and Adolescent and the Adult Women’s Trauma units, and the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

My predoctoral internship took place at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine – Jackson Behavioral Health System on the Child Clinical Track, where I worked across settings and levels of care including outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, outpatient and inpatient psychological testing, and full-program comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A).

My postdoctoral fellowship took place at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Gender Identity Program (currently the Gender and Sexuality Program) and the DBT-A Program, where I received extensive training in both gender-affirming care and completed my foundational DBT training.

I am currently an Associate Faculty at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, a practicing staff psychologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Children’s Hospital of NY, and the behavioral health lead of the Compass West Program, a welcoming and nonjudgmental space for individuals of all gender identities and expressions.

My past and current roles have afforded me the opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of providers to best advocate for the needs of my clients, which I have carried into my work today.