Our Providers

I was fortunate to grow up in Charleston where my family has lived for many generations.  I spent my childhood playing on Sullivan’s Island and sailing at my grandparents’ house on Wadmalaw Island. I practiced for track on the Battery and around Colonial Lake, no matter how hot it was! My family moved to Texas when I entered high school so that my father could further his academic career.

I attended Yale University, where I studied philosophy in the Great Books Program. I later studied Molecular Biology at the University of Colorado, where my husband, another Charlestonian, and I had moved after our wedding. I received my MD from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Program, a medical school known for the high standards and rigor of its training programs. I went to Dartmouth Medical School for psychiatry residency training where I was able to conduct research both with an international authority on mild traumatic brain injury, Dr. Tom McAllister, and with the National Center for PTSD.

After completion of residency I stayed on faculty at Dartmouth Medical School for 10 years and also practiced at the Dartmouth-affiliated White River Junction VA Medical Center. I worked with a wide variety of patients, including Dartmouth College students and faculty, retirees, and younger Veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also trained at Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. Theodore Stern in his area of expertise, consult psychiatry, and learned from his immense skill at quickly building strong connections with patients. Later in my career I completed a yearlong training program in acupuncture for physicians at Harvard Medical School, in part to challenge my own western ideas about patient treatment. These educational and life experiences have informed my approach to patients, which emphasizes holistic, patient centered, strength based treatment built on a foundation of a strong doctor-patient alliance and evidence-based medical knowledge.

In 2014, after 13 years in beautiful Vermont, my husband and I decided to return home (perhaps the snow-shoveling had something to do with it) to be closer to our families and friends. I treated patients at the VA in Charleston and served in a clinical leadership position at the hospital until joining Mt. Pleasant Psychiatry. I love to cook and entertain, and we’ve enjoyed reconnecting with our many childhood friends. We are delighted to be able to spend time with family in our own hometown. I am also a fitness devotee, with an emphasis on activities that enhance mind-body connections – though now I find it too hot to run outside some days!

I look forward to working with you and am confident that we have much to offer each other on your journey to well-being.