Overview
I am a clinical psychologist with a primary interest in outpatient interventions for difficulties managing emotional experiences that interfere with well-being. As a clinician, I specialize in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adults who report a variety of mental health problems, including personality, mood, anxiety, eating, trauma, stress-related, adjustment, and impulse control disorders. My approach to psychotherapy includes working collaboratively with my patients to identify their unique life and therapy goals and implementing evidence-based interventions to achieve the identified goals. As an educator, I train clinicians nationally and teach graduate students, psychology and psychiatry residents in in how to effectively apply CBT and DBT in their clinical work. As a researcher, I focus on psychotherapy optimization and neuroscience-informed treatment development for emotion dysregulation. My research keeps me up to date with the latest evidence-based approaches to use in my clinical work, and my work with patients strongly influences the research that I do. Outside of work, I enjoy traveling, gourmet food, nature adventures, and time with friends with family.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Stochastic Approximator of Motor Threshold (SAMT) for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Online Software and Its Performance in Clinical Studies.
Journal Article medRxiv · June 10, 2025 BACKGROUND: The motor threshold (MT) plays a central role in probing brain excitability and individualizing transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Previously, we proposed stochastic approximation (SA) as a new method for determining TMS MT and demonstrat ... Full text Link to item CiteCharacterization of neural networks involved in transdiagnostic emotion dysregulation from a pilot randomized controlled trial of a neurostimulation-enhanced behavioral intervention.
Journal Article Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging · December 2024 BACKGROUND: Emotional dysregulation is a serious and impairing mental health problem. We examined functional activity and connectivity of neural networks involved in emotional dysregulation at baseline and following a pilot neurostimulation-enhanced cognit ... Full text Link to item CiteAn experimental examination of neurostimulation and cognitive restructuring as potential components for Misophonia interventions.
Journal Article J Affect Disord · April 1, 2024 Misophonia is a disorder of decreased tolerance to certain aversive, repetitive common sounds, or to stimuli associated with these sounds. Two matched groups of adults (29 participants with misophonia and 30 clinical controls with high emotion dysregulatio ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Neurostimulation Enhanced Cognitive Restructuring for Transdiagnostic Emotional Dysregulation: A component Analysis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2023 - 2027Insular Connectomic Mechanisms of Emotion Dysregulation and Neuromodulation
FellowshipAdvisor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2027Emotion regulation skills training to reduce emotion dysregulation in parent and child
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2027View All Grants