Dr. Lesser completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Alpert Medical School of Brown University where she worked at the Rhode Island Hospital Partial Hospitalization Program, conducting individual, couples, family and group therapy with patients with various acute psychiatric disorders. During her studies, she conducted research on new mothers and motherhood. She is passionate about this topic, and enjoys working with mothers and parents throughout pregnancy and postpartum periods, offering parental counseling as well. She also enjoys seeing college students and has worked at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Counseling Services.