I began my nursing career in a trauma center ICU where many shifts are still unforgettable decades later not only for the complexity of medical treatment required but for the grace and fortitude shown by people at their best amidst the worst. 

With that inspiration to advance my medical skills, I returned to the University of South Carolina for training as a Family Nurse Practitioner. During later years of providing primary care, I began to devote more time to working in psychiatry.

I then obtained more in depth education from Johns Hopkins University, where I trained as the school's first nurse practitioner student in telepsychiatry.

I have now provided medical and/or psychiatric care as a nurse practitioner in over 80,000 patient visits for ages 18 months to 80+ years old including but not limited to outpatient walk in clinics, outpatient private practices, inpatient crisis stabilization, residential psychiatric treatment and outpatient telehealth.