About Me
I am a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of Psychotherapy within the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Clinic at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. I am also the Clinic Director at the California Psychology Center, a Stanford-affiliated group private practice specializing in therapy for anxiety, OCD, and depression. In these roles, I provide training on evidence-based psychotherapy to postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and psychiatry residents. My work also includes presenting training seminars and workshops on stress and anxiety.
My research within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford aims to improve the current treatments for anxiety and related disorders. This is funded by a NARSAD Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The book chapters and research articles that I have authored discuss topics such as how anxiety and worry are maintained over time, and how we can work with this knowledge.
My roles in leadership and training ultimately contribute to what I can offer my clients in therapy. Over the past several years I have specialized in helping residents and fellows overcome mental health struggles such as: anxiety, imposter syndrome, burnout, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and feeling an inflated sense of responsibility.
Education & Training
I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, where I specialized in anxiety, OCD, and mood disorders. I have extensive training in the following therapy modalities:
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Exposure and Response Prevention
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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Self-Compassion
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Mindfulness
I have been working in the field of mental health since 2008. My graduate school training includes a Master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. The research I conducted throughout graduate school focused on better understanding factors that underpin anxiety and worry, such as perfectionism, self-criticism, and intolerance of uncertainty, and how interventions for these experiences might be optimized. This work was recognized by the Canadian Psychological Association with a Certificate of Academic Excellence and was funded by awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Licensure
I am a licensed clinical psychologist in California (PSY 28652).
