She is also a founding partner in a new consulting firm, Integral Partnerships, LLC. She received her B.A., cum laude from Goucher College and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Toronto. She went on to chair the Department of Psychological Research at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry from 1975-1982 and was Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto Medical School. During that time she was a consultant to the Medical Research Council of Canada and the National Institutes of Mental Health in the United States. From 1977-84, she studied Zen Buddhism and served as Head Dharma Teacher at the Ontario Zen Center.