 In 2001 she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.She received her Ph.D. in 1999 from Miami University after graduating from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with highest honors and as a Phi Beta Kappa scholar.She decided to pursue post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco to broaden her mastery of all mainstream treatment modalities so she could expertly combine across narrow theories, thereby integrating the most effective treatments from diverse schools of thought.