She also holds an appointment in the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, and is a Fellow at the Sparrow Health System/MSU Center for Innovation and Research. She earned her Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University and completed a doctoral research internship in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Prior to joining Michigan State University in 2014, she served on the faculty at Virginia Tech for seven years.