Speaking and Training

Helping Healthcare Professionals Deliver More Human, Context-Informed Care

Recognized for Excellence in Teaching & Training

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Children’s National Hospital (2024)

  • Excellence in Supervision Award, Children’s National Hospital (2021, 2022, 2023)

  • Children’s Health Advocacy Institute All-Star Advocacy Award for hospital-wide training efforts (2026)

  • Developed and led multiple hospital-wide training initiatives focused on health equity, supervision, workforce development, and integrated care

A woman standing at a podium labeled 'Children's National' giving a presentation on mental health. She is smiling, wearing a beige blazer and black top, with dark wavy hair. Behind her is a large screen displaying a slide titled 'Mental Health in Context' with text and icons about understanding people within systems, relationships, and communities.

I am a clinical psychologist, educator, healthcare leader, and nationally recognized trainer with expertise in integrated behavioral health, health equity, provider well-being, and workforce development.

Over the past decade, I have delivered presentations, workshops, and training programs for psychologists, physicians, trainees, healthcare leaders, and interdisciplinary teams across academic medical centers, professional organizations, and healthcare systems. My presentations combine evidence-based content, practical application, meaningful reflection, and engaging discussion to help participants leave with both new insights and concrete skills.

As an Assistant Professor at George Washington University School of Medicine and a leader within Children's National Hospital, I have dedicated much of my career to training healthcare professionals. I have received multiple awards for excellence in teaching and supervision and have developed and led hospital-wide initiatives focused on professional development, equity, leadership, and integrated care.
Whether speaking to a room of trainees, healthcare leaders, or practicing clinicians, my goal is the same: to help people understand the larger systems shaping their work while providing realistic tools they can apply immediately.

Speaking Topics

I offer keynote presentations, workshops, grand rounds, faculty development sessions, trainee seminars, and customized educational programming for healthcare organizations, universities, and professional groups

  • Mental health does not exist in a vacuum. This presentation explores how social determinants of health, structural inequities, identity, culture, and systems shape patient experiences and clinical outcomes.

    Participants learn practical approaches to incorporating contextual factors into assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, supervision, and team-based care.

    Ideal audiences:

    • Psychologists

    • Physicians

    • Social workers

    • Mental health trainees

    • Healthcare educators

  • Healthcare professionals are increasingly asked to navigate impossible situations while continuing to provide compassionate care.

    This presentation moves beyond traditional wellness messaging to explore moral distress, systemic barriers, values-based practice, advocacy, and sustainable approaches to remaining engaged in meaningful work without losing oneself in the process.

    Participants leave with a deeper understanding of the forces contributing to professional distress and practical strategies for navigating them individually and collectively.

    Ideal audiences:

    • Healthcare providers

    • Medical trainees

    • Hospital leaders

    • Interdisciplinary healthcare teams

  • Drawing on years of experience developing and leading integrated behavioral health programs within one of the nation's leading pediatric health systems, this training provides practical guidance for implementing, strengthening, and sustaining behavioral health integration in primary care settings.

    Topics may include:

    • Integrated care models

    • Warm handoffs and team-based care

    • Workforce development

    • Care coordination

    • Program implementation

    • Health equity in integrated care

    • Training future integrated behavioral health providers

    Ideal audiences:

    • Pediatricians

    • Psychologists

    • Healthcare administrators

    • Integrated behavioral health programs

    • Healthcare systems

  • Effective supervision requires more than clinical expertise. This presentation explores how supervisors can create psychologically safe learning environments, navigate difficult conversations, support professional identity development, and prepare trainees to practice in increasingly complex healthcare systems.

    Ideal audiences:

    • Clinical supervisors

    • Training directors

    • Faculty

    • Healthcare educators

Work With Me

TRAINING PHILOSOPHY
The best professional development experiences change how people think, practice, lead, and care for others.

My trainings are designed to be thoughtful, engaging, psychologically safe, and immediately applicable. Participants can expect evidence-based content, meaningful reflection, practical tools, real-world examples, and honest conversations about the challenges facing healthcare today.

What People Are Saying

“This seminar has shifted my clinical framework from a traditional model to one that fully integrates systems, context, and equity into care”

— Trainee Seminar Participant

“The seminar leaders really make these series what they are. Both show such immense clinical skill and sensitivity”

— Faculty Seminar Participant

“This was beautiful and honest. I appreciated the sense of community and also some practical advice amongst an impossible situation” 

— Workshop Speaker Participant

“That was amazing! Such helpful information that was made salient with specific, concrete examples” 

— Community Presentation Participant

“Really important topics without the cliches that we feel when we talk about wellness”

— Workshop Speaker Participant

“I would 10/10 recommend that this curriculum continue to be offered and even expanded.” 

— Trainee seminar participant