About

I am a Psychologist in New York City and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. I work in the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Department at Bellevue Hospital and see clients in my private practice. I received my PhD from Long Island University Brooklyn and completed my predoctoral internship at New York University - Bellevue Hospital Center. My educational background is in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (BA, SUNY Stony Book) and Clinical Psychology (MA, Columbia University). During my doctorate, I received clinical training at Columbia University/Lieber Recovery Clinic, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, and Weill-Cornell - New York Presbyterian Hospital. Additionally, I completed a two-year postdoctoral research and clinical fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. During fellowship, I was given the Trainee Recognition Award from Division 18 SMI/SED section of the American Psychological Association (APA) for my research, clinical, and advocacy work. I am the current President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis US Chapter (ISPS-US) and Secretary of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance (TFSMI/SED). Additionally, I am co-editor of three books, Women and Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (both with Marilyn Charles), and Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (with Robin S. Brown), and the author/co-author of numerous research articles and book chapters on topics such as hearing voices and other anomalous experiences, postpartum psychosis, trauma, women's mental health, and transforming the mental healthcare system.