Education and Professional Experience

I worked and trained in various outpatient and inpatient settings across NYC. I served for over a decade as the supervisor psychologist on the women’s inpatient psychiatric and perinatal unit at Zucker Hillside Hospital/Northwell Health and as Chair of the Psychology Council for Anti-Racism and Equity (CARE). I supervised and coordinated the inpatient psychology team consisting of psychology post-doctoral fellows, interns, and externs in the adult and child psychology training programs. I served as the unit’s therapeutic programming leader and team leader for development of its standard Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program. I received training and consultation through Dr. Marsha Linehan’s Behavioral Tech Institute and also provided training, supervision, and mentorship to an interdisciplinary team of psychology trainees, nurses, social workers, mental health counselors, psychiatrists and nurse practitioners. I graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology. I completed my graduate training and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. at the New School for Social Research where I coordinated the Culture and Mental Health Lab and taught courses on race and culture in mental health. My research on racial socialization and identity development among Korean transracial adoptees has been published and presented. I have inpatient and outpatient experience working at hospitals, mental health clinics, and OBGYN clinics in the NYC area including Beth Israel, North Central Bronx, and NYU Counseling Center and Kings County Hospital Center. I completed the post-graduate training program through Adelphi’s Institute for Parenting on Parent and Infant Mental Health with a focus on attachment, trauma, and child-parent psychotherapy and am a registered Circle of Security facilitator.  I am also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), relational, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), family systems, and mindfulness-based interventions.

I have presented at national academic and professional conferences and workshops in the areas of evidence-based practices and programming for perinatal mental health, racial identity development, attachment and parenting, culturally inclusive interventions and supervision, and transracial adoption. I remain an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and a member of the Katz Institute for Women’s Health.