About Me

Hello! I’m a licensed psychologist. I provide teletherapy for children, adolescents, and their parents. I also work with college students and young adults (18-25). My specialty areas include anxiety disorders and OCD, trauma, parenting, and ADHD/executive functioning. Additionally, I have expertise in health psychology and enjoy working with youth who have chronic medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, food allergy, GI conditions, obesity, etc.).

As a therapist, my goal is to help you (or your child) develop coping skills to effectively manage big emotions, deal with stress, and maintain healthy relationships. My approach to therapy is individually-tailored and collaborative. I believe your strengths, values, and goals for therapy should frame our work together. I integrate techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, interpersonal therapy, and motivational interviewing. All the strategies that I use are evidence-based, which means supported by scientific research. I also draw on my public health background to think critically about how family, peer, school, community, and social systems interact and influence individuals’ lived experiences.

In addition to providing psychotherapy, I have an extensive background in psychology and public health research, program development, and quality improvement. I especially enjoy working with medical teams to provide education on mental health topics and to integrate mental health screening and intervention programs within their practice.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, hiking, gardening, cooking/baking, music, and exercise.

Education

Post-doctoral fellowship, Integrated Primary Care, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC

Pre-doctoral internship, Health Psychology, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC

Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science, Clinical Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Master of Public Health, Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC

Licensure and certifications

Licensed Psychologist, North Carolina #6486, Maryland #06841, Virginia #0810008449

Health Services Provider (HSP-P), North Carolina

Member, National Register of Health Service Psychologists

Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT) under PSYPACT (#14058), which allows me to provide services via telepsychology to individuals in PSYPACT-participating states. Click here to see states included in PSYPACT.