Working at the medical center in various settings, I was able to work with clients with a range of issues including physical concerns (e.g., liver disease/GI, chronic pain, obesity, acute hospitalization) that also had an impact on their emotional and mental health. I later received instruction and training in attachment research and particularly enjoyed areas of early intervention with families and young children.

After getting married and starting my own family, I wanted to focus on supporting early parenthood and infant/child experiences and relationships.

I worked in the UCSD Women’s Reproductive Mental Health program as a staff psychologist offering outpatient individual and group psychotherapy to mothers struggling with postpartum depression, anxiety, and mood symptoms. I also helped run the intensive outpatient program (IOP) until shifting to private practice. My family later moved from California to Arizona allowing first-hand experience of a major relocation and life transition.