 Rande is also a founding board member of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, under whose auspices she trained as a Volunteer Chaplain and served at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.She received her Master of Social Work degree from New York University and is a licensed psychotherapist with a specific focus on the intersection of Buddhism, spirituality, and psychology.Rande trained at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology in New York City, New York, where she is on the Faculty, Supervisor in the IPPP program, and Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.