Background

Teaching

  • Adjunct Professor, PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, Palo Alto University

  • Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Fellowships

  • Advanced Health Fellow

    • Stanford University

    • VA Palo Alto Health Care System

  • Clinical Neuropsychology Fellow

    • Harvard Medical School

    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    • Massachusetts Mental Health Center

Expertise

Research - Cognition and Health:

  • Integrative medicine: a breathing meditation for veterans with PTSD; a yoga protocol adapted for individuals with persistent complaints of Lyme disease (Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome [PTLDS], or “chronic Lyme”)

  • Substance use disorders: cognitive effects of a medication treatment for veterans with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI); drinking games in first year college students; a brief intervention for college students who exhibited high-risk drinking

Clinical interventions:

  • PTSD/trauma/military sexual trauma

  • Anxiety/OCD

  • Depression, complicated grief

  • Individuals with chronic medical conditions (MS, spinal cord injuries, Lyme disease, diabetes)

  • Couples therapy/relationship difficulties; personality disorders

  • LGBTQIA, particularly transgender individuals

Personal

I enjoy most outdoor activities in addition to motorsports, and received my motorcycle racing license in 2019. This image is of myself on the Laguna Seca corkscrew.

Internship

  • Iowa City VA Medical Center

Education

  • Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium

  • M.S., Clinical Psychology, PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium

  • B.S., Psychology, University of Washington

  • B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles