She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Victoria and her Masters in Cognition and Cognitive Development at the University of Calgary. She then completed her doctoral work in School and Applied Child Psychology at the University of Calgary. Her research interests focus on children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). More specifically, she takes a strengths-based perspective to working with these children and examines factors such as resilience, social-emotional well-being, knowledge of ADHD, and stigma.