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I received my undergraduate degree from New York Institute of Technology, and my master’s degree from the University of Iowa. My resume and my experiences over the past 31 years would be called eclectic in that I have assisted people from very diverse backgrounds with just as diverse issues, including the entire perinatal period, parenting challenges, life transitions, domestic violence, all forms of abuse and trauma, mental health, grief and loss, substances use disorders, and more. In my past, I was a birth doula helping to delivery many babies throughout the community and then assisting to navigate through the postpartum period. Any issue related to the perinatal would be considered a particular area of expertise that I have. However, it is not all that I do as a mental health therapist. 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