I was born and grew up in the US. I graduated with high honors from Duke with a Bachelor of Science (B.S., Biology, A.B., Economics), graduate medical school at NYU Grossman School of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine, M.D.), 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 Association Leadership Fellowship. 

I moved to Berlin first as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation’s Fellowship Program, 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 Hospital/ Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. I served as the Medical Director of an outpatient psychotherapeutic and psychiatric treatment institute treating the refugee population in Berlin/Brandenburg, and have been in Private Practice since.

I have extensive experience in treating a range of clients and issues using both CBT and psychodynamic therapy from my training and work in New York and 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).