She earned a Bachelors degree from Cornell University and completed her graduate work at the University of Virginia. She is currently the Associate Director of the Parenting at a Challenging Time (PACT) program at MGH, where she provides parent-guidance consultations to Cancer Center patients who have school-age or young adult children, focused on supporting children’s coping through all stages of a parent’s cancer survivorship. As well, she provides individual psychotherapy to children and adults through the Psychiatry Department. An interest in working with bereaved individuals grew out of her experience with PACT, and she is currently a co-investigator on a study of optimizing the treatment of complicated grief.