After graduating from Cornell with a BA in Psychology, I thought I would probably head to graduate school in the future to get my PhD, but wanted to take some time off and do other types of work before I committed to that endeavor. So, I moved to Los Angeles and worked in business for a few years before returning to academia with a medical research job at UCLA hospital, and then changing jobs once again to a research job more closely related to psychological/sociological research at the UCLA Drug Abuse Research Center. I ended up taking off more years than I originally expected (7!) before starting my PhD program in clinical psychology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I also took longer than planned to complete my PhD program because I had two kids while a graduate student and was almost 9 months pregnant with my third when I defended my dissertation! After graduating with my PhD, I took an extended maternity leave before starting my own private practice. In addition to providing psychotherapy and psychological testing services in my practice, I have done some consulting work in which I created teaching materials as well as worked with a local small business to help improve the clinical validity/accuracy of the diagnostic measures they were developing.