Education & Experience

I started my career as a direct service provider for female adolescent felons in the projects of Cleveland who were finishing their sentences at a treatment center. One unit included teens who were pregnant or had a young child. This motivated me to attend graduate school to understand and treat trauma in both children and adults. I obtained my PhD from the University of Toledo in 2002. My career has taken several turns over the years, and I have landed solidly in the realm of education about and treatment of acute and accumulated trauma in emergency responders. This has been a specialty since 2013 and in 2019 I moved to working exclusively with emergency responders in my solo private practice.