She earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon, and arrived in sunny Los Angeles in 2010 for postdoctoral training at UCLA. She fell in love with southern California and never left. She has conducted research in the areas of family influences on sexual behavior, and sexual adjustment after cancer. She helped to develop and deliver a workshop called Life after Breast Cancer in her role as Project Scientist at UCLA, and is currently co-authoring a book chapter called ‘Sex and Cancer’ in the Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine, due out next year. She has a private practice in Los Angeles.