She completed her training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and was awarded the George J. Mohr Award for her paper "A Case of Childhood Psychosis: The Emergence of the Subject." Mihaela specializes in working with parents and children, who struggle with behavioral and emotional issues as well as in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of adults, who have experienced trauma or who struggle in their relationships. She writes a Parenting Blog, the Practical Psychoanalysis Blog for PsychCentral.com and publishes an electronic magazine titled Mental Health Digest, discussing common mental health issues, affecting people and their families.