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Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

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Welcome to my home page and to the Department of Psychiatry at South Sacramento.

I hope that you will use this home page to follow links to some of the educational information about mental health conditions, and to learn a little bit about me. Please take some time to review the links located on the left side. It will give you places to explore to get further information about various health topics.

I am originally from Western New York. I graduated from SUNY Binghamton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. For several years, I worked and took graduate level courses in clinical psychology prior to returning to my education full time. I completed an APA Accredited Internship at the Cincinnati Veterans Administration Medicine Center. I was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship in Medical Family Therapy at Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals in Rochester, New York. I completed my PsyD degree in Clinical Psychology at Wright State University’s School of Professional Psychology. I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in batterer intervention at my graduate alma mater. I have worked at both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry settings and community health and mental heath settings.

In 2003, I joined Kaiser Permanente and began working in the Pain Management Clinic of South Sacramento as a Behavioral Medicine Consultant. In 2006, I began serving as Manager of Adult Services in our South Sacramento Psychiatry Department. I continue to have the opportunity to work with a number of talented people in our community, medical center, and Northern California to improve the healthcare response to domestic violence and to improve cultural competency efforts in the delivery of services. My clinical interests include cultural factors in health promotion, interpersonal relationships, pain management, the impact of family violence on health, and resiliency factors.

I am licensed by the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs Board of Psychology, and my license number is PSY 19593.

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