She earned her Ph.D. degree in Clinical and Developmental Psychology from Michigan State University. She currently divides her time between private practice in Baltimore County and the counseling center at Loyola University of Maryland, and is adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology at Loyola University of Maryland. She specializes in psychotherapy and psycho-educational testing with children, adolescents and adults with emotional, attention and learning disorders, and in post-divorce parent coordination. She works extensively with orthodox Jewish populations.