Appointments
Evidence-based care at two Harvard Medical School affiliates, in person and via telehealth.
Cambridge Health Alliance
Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry. Evidence-based assessment and psychotherapy, in person and via telehealth, to a predominantly immigrant caseload — certified to provide care in Portuguese, French, Spanish, and English. Part of the Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration (PCBHI) team.
McLean Hospital
Clinical Psychologist, School Consultation Service. Consultation to school districts, and psychoeducational materials developed for schools and communities.
From Clinic to Science
Gaps met in practice, answered with new measures, trainings, and partnerships.
Built in the Clinic
Bariatric Psychological Assessment
The pre-surgical psychological interview lacked measures of eating psychopathology. Redesigned the clinical interview guide with departmental leadership, adding validated and culturally relevant measures, and embedding research components that allow investigation of binge-eating mechanisms and their relation to post-surgical outcomes. The Estimation Error Index is one of the solutions developed for this gap.
Intercultural Training for Primary Care Clinicians
Proposed and led a training on culturally sensitive psychotherapy for PCBHI clinicians serving a predominantly immigrant caseload — addressing the gap between evidence-based protocols and the linguistic and cultural realities of the people receiving them. Builds on the finding that translated screening instruments can carry systematic measurement error (Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2025).
Family Health Residency Program
An international partnership between Tiradentes University (Brazil) and Cambridge Health Alliance that trains primary care teams to implement evidence-based mental health screening and treatment protocols. Developed the eating and weight disorders module.