about

I am a Psychologist in New York City and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. I work in the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Bellevue Hospital and see clients in my private practice.  

I received my PhD from Long Island University Brooklyn and completed my predoctoral internship at New York University - Bellevue Hospital Center. My educational background is in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (BA, SUNY Stony Book) and Clinical Psychology (MA, Columbia University). During my doctorate, I received clinical training at Columbia University/Lieber Recovery Clinic, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, and Weill-Cornell - New York Presbyterian Hospital. Additionally, I completed a two-year postdoctoral research and clinical fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. During fellowship, I was given the Trainee Recognition Award from Division 18 SMI/SED section of the American Psychological Association (APA) for my research, clinical, and advocacy work. I am Board Certified in Serious Mental Illness Psychology by the American Board of Serious Mental Illness Psychology, a provisional affiliate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. 

I am the current President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis US Chapter (ISPS-US) and Secretary of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance (TFSMI/SED). 

Additionally, I am co-editor of three books, Women and Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (both with Marilyn Charles), and Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (with Robin S. Brown), and the author/co-author of numerous research articles and book chapters on topics such as hearing voices and other anomalous experiences, postpartum psychosis, trauma, women's mental health, and transforming the mental healthcare system.  

In addition to my clinical and academic work, I was an original organizer of the Hearing Voices Movement in NYC (Hearing Voices Network NYC) and have a deep commitment to promoting current/former service user involvement in mental health care research, policy, and clinical work.