A career centered on child and forensic psychiatry has allowed this physician to develop extensive expertise in the psychiatric evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults across clinical, academic, and legal settings. Her practice includes child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, general adult psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the care of youth with complex mental health needs, including those with histories of sexual trauma. Board certified in Adult Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry, she also brings more than 5 years of expert witness experience providing consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony.

Her professional background includes serving in academic, public sector, and judicial leadership roles as Director of Child Forensic Services, Psychiatric Consultant to a Juvenile Mental Health Court, Attending Psychiatrist, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and Assistant Dean. Her work has focused on forensic psychiatric assessment, juvenile justice, child and adolescent mental health, developmental disabilities, competency-related issues, trauma-informed psychiatric care, foster care, and the mental health needs of justice-involved youth. She has also conducted extensive research involving commercially sexually exploited youth, juvenile competency, child maltreatment, trauma, and behavioral health interventions.

She earned a Doctor of Medicine degree and completed residency training in psychiatry, fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy training, and a Fellowship in Psychiatry and the Law. Her qualifications are further supported by active involvement in the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. In addition to her clinical and forensic practice, she has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters addressing child psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, juvenile justice, competency to stand trial, child maltreatment, trauma, and mental health care for vulnerable youth populations.