 During that time, she enrolled in the Professional School of Psychological Studies, San Diego (which was not regionally accredited, but was approved by the state of California for psychologist licensure and is now defunct).Her observations regarding the beneficial effect of eye movements, and the development of procedures to utilize them in clinical practice, became the basis of her dissertation.She received her PhD in 1988, and her thesis was published in the "Journal of Traumatic Studies" in 1989, followed by an invited article that was published in the "Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry".