I am a bilingual Spanish speaking licensed psychologist who has trained and worked at Ivy league medical schools around the Northeast. I specialize in women’s mental health, peri and postnatal mood and anxiety disorders, and psychological testing for children and adolescents.

Perinatal and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Women’s Mental Health

I completed my fellowship at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, where I worked with women struggling to make the transition to parenthood due to depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders, Bipolar disorder, and other serious mental illness such as schizophrenia spectrum disorders. As part of my residency I completed a placement at Harvard Medical School working with individuals with serious mental illness, making me especially qualified to recognize warning signs and vulnerabilities in women. I also bring a unique understanding and knowledge of medication in pregnancy and postpartum, which I gained from working closely with GPs and psychiatrists while in training.

Prior to my fellowship, my work largely centered around working with women across the lifespan and understanding how physiological changes impact mood and well-being. An important focus of my clinical work has also been understanding the ways that the intersectionality of our identities (acculturation status, gender identity, biological sex, race, ethnicity, language) impact mental health and well-being.

Psychological Testing

As part of my residency at Boston University’s Boston Medical Center, I worked in Child Psychiatry with individuals from ages five and up to provide diagnostic clarity about their symptoms and recommendations for school and home. Assessment has always been a part of my work as a psychologist, such that I have also worked evaluating adults and children across the lifespan to determine diagnostic clarity.