She is also in Independent Practice in Cambridge, MA. She has presented nationally and published peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on the topics of immigration, trauma,cultural competence and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has served as the chair of the Multicultural Concerns Committee for Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), as a member of the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) in the American Psychological Association, and as a member of the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration. She is a Member-at- Large in the Board of Directors in Division 39 and a member of the APA Task Force on Re-envisioning the Multicultural Guidelines for the 21st Century. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, published by APA Books in January 2016.