I am a licensed psychologist (PSY 34413) and the co-founder of Cypress Mental Health, based in Los Angeles, CA.  While I have experience working with a broad range of mental health conditions, my specialties are anxiety and mood disorders, eating disorders, reproductive and perinatal mental health, cannabis use disorders, OCD, couples therapy, and trauma. I offer a variety of evidence-based therapies, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills support.

 I received my B.A. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Throughout graduate school, I trained extensively in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and psychodynamic therapy at the UCLA Psychology Clinic and the UCLA Screening and Treatment for Anxiety & Depression (STAND) Clinic. I completed my APA-accredited predoctoral internship at UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services where I specialized in short-term, evidence-based treatments for students with unipolar and bipolar depression, anxiety, eating disorders, grief/loss, cannabis use disorder, and traumatic disorders. I completed my postdoctoral training at the UCLA Anxiety and Depression Research Center and worked as a clinician under the supervision of Dr. Danielle Keenan-Miller to further develop my expertise in treating eating disorders and unipolar and bipolar depression. Through my work on the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Perinatal Depression research study, I developed an expertise in reproductive mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.

I have conducted and published research on loneliness in young adults and am currently working with the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge to improve how we study and treat depressive disorders. Additionally, I am a firm believer in integrating the latest advances in research throughout my clinical practice and currently serve on the Clinical Translational Board for Behaviour Research and Therapy. In the last year, I also served on the planning committee for the APA Division 12 Society of Clinical Psychology inaugural conference.