My education and clinical training

I earned a BA in Psychology and a certificate in Latin American Studies from Princeton University in 2001 with High Honors. I then worked as a research assistant in the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

I moved to Philadelphia in 2003 to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Temple University. During graduate school I completed training externships at Temple University’s Psychological Services Center, the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center, and Friends Hospital.

I moved to New York in 2008 to complete a year-long clinical psychology internship at Long Island Jewish Hospital, where I continued to specialize in cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety and OCD.

After finishing my PhD, I spent the summer of 2009 in Quito, Ecuador, as part of the Ecuador Professional Preparation Program—a clinical training externship for mental health clinicians.

I completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from 2009 to 2011 in CBT for children, adolescents, and adults at New York Presbyterian Hospital's Westchester Division/Weill Cornell Medical College. In 2010 I became licensed as a clinical psychologist in the state of New York.

my faculty career

Upon completing my fellowship in 2011, I joined the Weill Cornell Medical College faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. I became the Assistant Director of Education for Psychology in 2014. During my 8 years as a faculty member at Weill Cornell, I split my time among doing clinical work, supervising psychologists-in-training, and being the administrator for the education program. In 2019, I transitioned from Weill Cornell Medicine’s full-time faculty to its voluntary faculty, where I continue to be actively involved in training psychologists.

I have published my research work and presented clinical and research work at national conferences including those sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation, and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. I am a former Chair of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Special Interest Group.

For more details on my education, clinical training, conference presentations, and publications, please see my Curriculum Vitae.

hudson river therapy

In 2019, I opened Hudson River Therapy Psychological Services, a Midtown Manhattan specialty private practice focused on treating individuals with anxiety and related disorders. I am licensed in New York (018659) and New Jersey (35SI00643200), and provide teletherapy to residents of both states.