She earned her doctorate from University of California at Santa Barbara, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical geropsychology at Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She is Director of the Women’s Stress Disorder Treatment Team, a Site Director for the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology internship program, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Boston University School of Medicine; she also serves as VA Boston’s Local Evidence Based Psychotherapy Coordinator. In addition to her clinical- and training-related administrative roles, she provides supervision to psychology and psychiatry trainees, treats female military veterans with trauma histories, and co-directs the Stress, Health, and Aging Research Program at VA Boston.