Training and Education
I obtained my BA from Dartmouth College in 1990 and my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Duke University in 1998.
​
I went on to a clinical internship at Northwestern University and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in trauma at the Cambridge Hospital Victims of Violence Program, where I began my staff appointment at Harvard Medical School. To further the depth of my therapy training, I also completed a two-year fellowship in psychodynamic theory and treatment at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.
​
My trauma specialization was honed as I continued my work at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School for 11 years, first at the adolescent residential program, then on the inpatient Trauma and Dissociative Disorders Unit and at the Women's Treatment Program/Hill Center residential and partial programs. I served as the Program Director at the Hill Center for several years until I left to focus on my private practice work in 2011. I was deeply fortunate to receive years of supervision and clinical oversight from master trauma clinicians at both the Victims of Violence Program and at McLean Hospital early in my career. I maintain from this a deep respect for the resilience and recovery processes of survivors.
​
Through my work in diverse settings with adults and adolescents, I became skilled at treating clients with severe and acute mental illness as well as clients who were seeking long-term change in their lives through outpatient work. Through my career, I have presented at several professional conferences and other settings, taught undergraduate psychology, supervised numerous psychology trainees, and supervised and consulted to many licensed clinicians.
​
​
​
Get in Touch
617-851-4185