Her professional experience includes individual, group, and family counseling; teaching in university and professional settings; lactation consulting; childbirth education and birth support; and pre-school teaching. She researches and has published material on the psychological aspects of pregnancy, birth, nursing, mothering, and early parenting in peer reviewed journals, newsletters, and online resources. Her chapter on Breastfeeding Envy: Unresolved Patriachal Envy and the Obstruction of Physiologically Based Nursing Patterns is published in the book Giving Milk.