My training as a psychologist has been diverse. I have worked in community mental health clinics, a hospital, and private practice settings. In addition to five years of doctoral education, I am Board Certified in Clinical Psychology (ABPP), trained as a psychoanalyst through the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. I also am a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist – Consultant (CEDS-C).​

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In addition to working in private practice, I am Department Chair and a Professor in the Psychology Department at Golden Gate University. I am also a Faculty Member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP), the Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions Service (EDCAS) at the William Alanson White Institute, a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), and a Training Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP).

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I have published several books and an up-to-date list of my publications is on researchgate. In addition, I was the guest editor for a special issue of The Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy that focused on the psychodynamic treatment of eating disorders and a special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry that focused on humanizing mental health policy and practice. I am also the former Executive Director of the National Association for Males with Eating Disorders, a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Eating Disorders Association, and maintain a blog on Psychology Today about eating disorders. I have been interviewed on a number of podcasts including IPA Off the Couch, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, New Books Network, and Technology and the Mind and have written for Aeon and Psyche, among others.