She has taught at conferences and groups both in the U.S. and abroad, including as an invited international guest faculty for the First Russian International Expressive Arts Festival in Moscow in 2012. Her teaching interests include multicultural studies, integrative health, medical qigong, human development, transpersonal, developmental and clinical psychology, expressive arts therapies, and consciousness studies. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee and a B.A. in human biology from Stanford University.