Education and Work

In 2014, I relocated to Atlanta to start my psychology practice. My specialty is in reproductive health psychology, with an emphasis on infertility, third-party reproduction and later abortion. I have been a guest lecturer at leading reproductive centers and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. I am certified in Ali Domar’s Mind Body Program for Fertility and have completed a 12-month Fertility Counseling Postgraduate Course.

I attended the University of Massachusetts-Boston where I studied psychology and sociology, minoring in women’s studies. Upon completion, I worked in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department at the University of California-San Francisco doing research on a prenatal testing tool and assessing quality of life in women with severe menstrual pain and bleeding.

I relocated to New York City, taking a position in the Department of Anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell coordinating research on maternal health and pain management. Later, I transferred to the hospital’s Department of Psychiatry to manage a National Institute of Mental Health project on the genetics of anorexia and a clinical trial focused on treating binge eating disorder.

I received my doctorate in clinical psychology at Nova Southeastern University, where I focused on a variety of adult individual and group interventions. There I received the Dean’s Leadership Award as well as a grant to complete my dissertation on acceptance of the HPV vaccine within the Latino community. My findings exposed another facet of racial inequality within healthcare.

I completed my internship at SUNY-Upstate Medical University, where I furthered my training in adult clinical interventions and supervised medical students in psychiatry. My post-doctoral work was completed at Hobart and Williams Colleges. As the alcohol and drugs (AOD) coordinator, I created and developed an AOD assessment, intervention protocol and was responsible for training faculty and students in crisis intervention.