In 1983 I earned my B.A. degree in biology and secondary education from Otterbein College, a small liberal arts college in
central Ohio. My teaching career was short-lived as I quickly discovered I was more drawn to counseling my troubled
high school students than teaching biology to a classroom of thirty students. I returned to school and earned my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Miami University of Ohio . I worked as a staff psychologist at the Central Missouri State University Counseling Center from 1994 to 1996. In 1997, I became a licensed psychologist in the state of Washington and for 18 years ran my private practice in Capitol Hill with colleagues at Associates In Behavioral Health.
central Ohio. My teaching career was short-lived as I quickly discovered I was more drawn to counseling my troubled
high school students than teaching biology to a classroom of thirty students. I returned to school and earned my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Miami University of Ohio . I worked as a staff psychologist at the Central Missouri State University Counseling Center from 1994 to 1996. In 1997, I became a licensed psychologist in the state of Washington and for 18 years ran my private practice in Capitol Hill with colleagues at Associates In Behavioral Health.
In 2002 I became a parent.
Parenting catapulted me onto an amazing
and challenging journey, and deepened my
understanding of human development and
the parent-child attachment relationship.