Ms. Freund-Begley graduated from the University of Portland with a BS in Nursing and later received her MS in Psychiatric Nursing with honors from Gonzaga University. She will begin her doctoral studies in the DNP Program at the College of Nursing at the University of Utah in the Fall of 2017. She is board certified as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.