She serves as the Co-Director of the national VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment and as a Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She also has an honorary appointment at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her clinical psychology internship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS), and a research postdoctoral fellowship at the VAPHCS Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC).