I was born and grew up in the US. I graduated with high honors from Duke with a Bachelor of Science (BS, Biology, BS, Economics), graduate medical school at NYU School of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine, MD) where I received a President’s Service Award for co-founding of the NYC Free Clinic, and completed my psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinical residency training at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, where I received an American Psychiatric Assoc. Leadership Fellowship. 

I moved to Berlin first on a Robert Bosch Fellowship, then as an US-German Fulbright Scholar (Guest Professor for Public and Global Health) and then continued with additional residency training and psychotherapeutic and psychiatric specialist work at Berlin's Charité. Currently I am the medical director of an outpatient psychotherapeutic and psychiatric treatment institute serving the refugee population in Berlin/Brandenburg. 

I have extensive experience in treating a range of clients and issues using both CBT and psychoanalytically-based / psychodynamic therapy from my training and work in New York and Berlin. While in Berlin I have worked in a number of capacities within academic medicine, emergency and acute settings, outpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services.

My German state medical license is issued through the Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales Berlin and psychiatric and psychotherapeutic specialist board certification (Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie) by the Ärztekammer Berlin (Berlin Medical Board).