A scholar-practitioner, she has published several articles and chapters on heroic altruism during the Holocaust, most recently, Holocaust Heroes: Heroic Altruism of Non-Jewish Moral Exemplars in Nazi Europe in The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership (2017; S. Allison, G. Goethals & R. Kramer, Eds.). She completed a Stanley Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Affective Disorders Research at North-Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center and is a graduate of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She has a full-time private practice in New York City where she works on transgenerational trauma with first-, second-, and third-generation Holocaust survivors. She is currently working on a forthcoming book on prosocial parenting.