EDUCATION

Undergraduate

Beloit College, B.A., Psychology major, 1973

 

Graduate

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Clinical Psychology, 1991

Union Institute, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 1999

 

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

Internship

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA,, 2- year internship in Clinical Psychology, 1997-1999

Trauma specialization including rape crisis training: Emergency Department crisis assessment, Individual and Group Psychotherapy with outpatient rape survivors, and long-term psychotherapy with survivors of complex PTSD.

 

Post-Doctoral Training

Hypnotherapy Training Institute, Corte Madera, CA, Advanced Hypnotherapy Certification, 2000-2002

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Newton, MA, Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Certification, 2009-2012

Mindbridge Institute, Boston, MA, Professional Coaching Certification (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF) Accreditation, 2019

 

PROFESSIONAL LICENSE

 

Licensed Psychologist, 1999-present

Ohio (inactive); California (inactive): Rhode Island (2004-present)

Certified Professional Life Coach, (2019-present) 

 

ACADEMIC/CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS                              

 

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, 2012-present

Clinical Faculty, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Co-led Rape Crisis Group, Supervised psychology interns in Emergency Department, 1999-2000

Clinical Director of Training, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, San Raphael, CA, 2004-2006

BOARD APPOINTMENTS

 

Executive Board Member, Common Threads Project: Provide psychological consultation for trauma treatment program for global refugee survivors of gender-based violence, (Jan. 2020- present)

MEMBERSHIP PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES                                

 

American Psychological Association, Division 39- Psychoanalysis

Rhode Island Association of Psychoanalytic Psychologies

International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

International Association for Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Massachusetts Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis

Association of NLP Practitioners

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 

Doctoral dissertation, “The Effects of Gender Composition on the Communication of Women in Small Groups”

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

 

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Clinical Workshop, April, 2012

UNIVERSITY TEACHING ROLES

 

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, 2012-present

Psychotherapy Supervisor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, 2008-2012