She co-ordinates the MA (Clinical Psychology) programme and teaches at Honours, Masters and Doctoral levels. She obtained her MA from the University of Cape Town and her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Contradicting Maternity: HIV-positive Motherhood in South Africa (Wits University Press, 2009), co-editor of the journal Psycho-analytic Psychotherapy in South Africa and has published in local and international academic journals. She is also a practising clinical psychologist.