Prior to that, she was an Adjunct Faculty Member at The Adler School of Professional Psychology and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and the Supervising Psychologist at Garfield Park Hospital. She is a Contributing Editor of the peer-reviewed journal of the Sufi Psychology Association called Sufism: the Science of the Soul. Though she was born in Iran, she grew up in the U.S. and is a student of the M. T. O. Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism at the Chicago/Milwaukee center.