Clinical Experience

After working for several years doing 1:1 intervention and working in the Building Blocks program, I co-founded (with Karen Levine) the Spotlight Program at the North Shore Arc.

As the Founding Director of Spotlight, I worked directly with hundreds of families and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, non-verbal learning disorder, social anxiety, and related social-emotional disorders. I also provided programmatic supervision to more than 30 staff and consultation to schools and other human service agencies.

I spent the 2009 - 2010 year as clinical psychology intern at the Lafayette School and Treatment Center in Charlottesville, providing individual, group, family, and millieu therapy to students with behavioral and emotional disorders, ages 8 - 18.

From 2010 - 2012, I was a clinical psychology extern at the UVA Neurocognitive Assessment Lab & Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center, where I administered, interpreted, and wrote-up integrated neuropsychological, educational, and neurological assessments of children with developmental, behavioral, and learning disorders.

From 2008 - 2012, I was a therapist at the Mary Ainsworth Clinic, providing free clinical services to students and members of the greater Charlottesville community.

From 2012 - 2013, I was a Child Psychology/Pediatric Neuropsychology Intern in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago Medical Center. In this capacity I carried a caseload of appx. 10 outpatient psychotherapy cases, conducted Pediatric Neuropsychology and Neurodevelopmental Disorder assessments, provided Psychological Consult/Liaison services in the Comer Children's Hospital, and engaged in ongoing departmental (primarily focusing on executive functioning and neuropsychological predictors of social functioning) and clinical neurophysiological (using intracranial electrocorticography) research.

Currently, I supervise Stony Brook Clinical Psychology Ph.D. students seeing child, adolescent, and family cases on the Krasner Psychological Center.