Her clinical focus is on the assessment and treatment of patients who continue to suffer the effects of trauma, including refugees she works with at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. She has lectured and taught on psychological trauma including trans-cultural aspects; and increasingly on global mental health. She has published a number of articles two books, Trauma and the body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy, with Pat Ogden and Kekuni Minton and The impact of early life trauma on health and disease: The hidden epidemic, an edited book with Eric Vermetten and Ruth Lanius.