I completed my graduate work at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a clinical internship at the Albany Psychology Internship Consortium in Albany, New York.

After completing my graduate work I moved to the University of Washington in Seattle where I was a Research Associate at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center.  

From 1995 to 1999 I was a Clinical Director at All Faiths Receiving Home, a non-profit agency that provides services for abused and neglected children and their families in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  I directed clinical services in the Crisis Shelter Program, the Home Based Services Program, the Parent Education and Support Program, and the Residential Treatment Center.  I also provided individual, group, and family therapy services for children and their families.  

I joined the faculty at the California State University, Chico in 1999.  I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in clinical and social psychology.  My research interests are in the area of aggression (which is the topic of my Senior Seminar course) and sexual behavior (particularly how people communicate about sexuality).