Psychologist with over 10 years of experience, with forensic psychology and clinical practice focused on abuse, rape, sexual offenses, trauma, violence, sexual victimization, women’s sexuality, sex addiction, hypersexuality, and the law as it relates to sexual crimes. She serves as an expert witness with 7 years of expert witness experience, including court testimony experience. Her work includes competency to stand trial evaluations, child custody evaluations, parent fitness evaluations, forensic evaluations, psychosexual risk assessments, psychological evaluations, sex offender assessments, domestic violence therapy, mental health counseling, and sex offender-specific therapy in individual and group settings.

She holds a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology with a child track, a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a human sexuality minor. She is a licensed psychologist, and her professional involvement includes the Pennsylvania Sex Offender Assessment Board, the Allegheny County Sex Offender Management and Containment Task Force, psychology-law organizations, sexual abuser treatment organizations, family and conciliation court organizations, interpersonal violence organizations, and child abuse and neglect prevention organizations. Her publication and presentation work addresses rape trauma syndrome, rape and women’s sexuality, stranger and acquaintance rape, sex offender assessment and treatment, child custody and parental fitness evaluations, violence, abuse, and trauma.

Her forensic and clinical experience includes evaluations and counseling services for individuals involved in criminal and civil legal systems. She has conducted parenting fitness, custody, psychosexual risk, psychological, competency, malingering, pre-sentence, insanity, pre-employment, and fitness-for-duty evaluations. She has also collaborated with child and youth services, attorneys, and treatment providers, and has provided expert testimony. Her counseling experience includes trauma-focused therapy for children and adolescents, PTSD assessments, domestic violence groups, sex offender groups, competency restoration and legal issues groups, and counseling for individuals in community-based correctional settings.