ABOUT ME
When I meet with a new client, we first make a plan to help things feel manageable. Then, I help you learn to shift your thoughts and take the power away from your fears. With practice, these changes will become a normal way of thinking. Finally, you will have the energy to focus on enjoying and appreciating the life that you have.
I have a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Miami and completed my predoctoral internship at Yale School of Medicine and my postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School. I have worked as faculty at UMASS Chan School of Medicine and Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine seeing patients, doing clinical teaching and supervision and conducting research.
Health Psychology
PCOS
Endometriosis
chronic illness
cancer
end-of-life issues
autoimmune disease
diabetes
heart disease
GI disease
solid organ transplant
stem cell transplant
functional neurological disorders
Reproductive Psychology
infertility
third-party reproduction
(donor egg, sperm, embryo and surrogacy)
pregnancy loss
IUFD
termination for medical reasons
stillbirth
medical trauma
postpartum depression and anxiety
adjustment to parenting
disclosing donor conception to children
Life Adjustment
chronic anxiety
panic
phobias
health anxiety
depression
ADHD
burnout in medical professionals
anxiety from COVID pandemic
Faculty Positions
Reproductive Health Psychologist, Northwestern Medical Group, Assistant Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 9/2018- 12/2022
Consultation-Liaison and Adolescent Bariatric Health Psychologist, UMass Memorial Health Center, Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School 11/2016 – 8/2018
Postdoctoral training
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Clinical Psychology (Primary Care/Children and Families Track), Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard School of Medicine, Cambridge MA, 2016
Predoctoral training
Predoctoral Internship, Clinical and Community Psychology, Behavioral Medicine Track, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (APA Accredited), 2015
Predoctoral Externship, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology Track, University of Miami Hospital and Clinics, Miami FL, 2013
Predoctoral Externship, Clinical Psychology, Pediatric Track, Mailman Center for Child Development Miami FL, 2012
Education
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Miami (APA accredited), Coral Gables, FL, 2015
M.S., Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, 2008
B.S. (Phi Beta Kappa), Psychology; Spanish; Latin American, Iberian and Caribbean studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI 2005