I received my undergraduate Bachelors degree in Psychology from SUNY Binghamton where I conducted a lab at the Institute for Child Development and implemented ABA programming with children on the Autism Spectrum. I also participated in internships at Head start, and acted as a mentor for a child in need through a partnership program between my college and Johnson City middle school. I then attended NYU for my Masters in Social Work and completed my first year internship at a Community Behavioral Health Center that served chronically mentally ill adults in the community. My second year field placement was at New York Presbyterian Weil Cornell Medical Center where I was able to serve patients in a variety of inpatient units: Inpatient Acute Rehab, Medical Orthopedic Trauma service, Cardiothoracic ICU, and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. I provided psychosocial support to families and patients in need while managing medical changes, crises or end of life care. I then went on to work as the inpatient neurosurgery social worker for two years at NYP Cornell and provided psychosocial support and discharge planning services to patients and families facing traumatic brain injury, cancer diagnoses, end of life/hospice care. I decided to shift into Inpatient OBGYN in October of 2017 and became specialized in perinatal mental health and needs during that time. I created the perinatal and early infant loss support group at New York Presbyterian WCMC and helped to improve service delivery to pregnant and postpartum women and their families through program and policy changes during my time there, as well as interdisciplinary education on how to best support this population. I transitioned to The Motherhood Center in 2022 where I continued to hone my skills in relation to serving the needs of new mothers and families as they transitioned into parenthood and tackled the complicated feelings and challenges of this time period.
