As the child of Nigerian immigrants, I was exposed to two very different cultures while growing up. At home I ate foods and practiced traditions relative to my parents' native cultures, but at school and many other areas of my life, I was exposed to everyday American society. I was amply observant during these years and was able to pick up on many cultural distinctions at a young age. Because of these experiences, I often contemplated my actions and the actions of the people around me and was very curious about the underlying processes of human psychology. Over time, I developed a habit of internally questioning my own behaviors, and those of my family members and peers. Since then, those inquiries have expanded and evolved into a profound interest in human behavior, emotions, and thinking, and ultimately my current professional role as a psychologist.

As a licensed psychologist, I combine an analytical mindset — for synthesizing information and uncovering important insights — with the empathy and interpersonal skills to build meaningful relationships with patients, stakeholders, and communities. My work spans three fields — clinical mental health, technology, and psychedelics — and I have a combined 10+ years experience across industry, clinical, and academic settings. I am optimistic about the potential of technology to innovate and restructure the mental health ecosystem and its infrastructure; I believe psychedelics are driving significant societal progress such as in policy, personal exploration, spirituality, and, most urgently, mental health treatment. These two developing innovations are poised to reshape mental health, offering real hope against a global burden of psychological suffering that has long seemed intractable. My ambition is to drive progress and transform how we understand, treat, and honor mental health and psychological suffering. Community mental health, progress and innovation, the interpersonal process in psychotherapy, and social connection as a critical factor for human flourishing, are the threads that guide how I approach my work.

I am a generalist psychologist working primarily with adults, with a broad repertoire of clinical skills including psychotherapy, brief interventions, psychological assessment, and diagnostic interviewing. My clinical experience is similarly broad, with placements in healthcare clinics, academic research teams, specialty clinics such as a memory and aging program, and private practice. A sizable portion of my background has been in community mental health, so accessibility, chronic mental distress, complex mental health challenges, and systemic and sociocultural factors are central to how I work as a clinician. I utilize an integrative approach in my clinical work, drawing from an eclectic collection of clinical philosophies, while emphasizing the whole person across body, feelings, intellect, spirit, and sociocultural context.

Inquiry refers to my work conducting research, teaching, and academic writing, and my formal academic training. I have extensive and broad research experience across the behavioral and health sciences, and consider myself a generalist researcher — skilled and experienced across quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. My toolkit spans statistical programming (R, Python, SPSS), software for systematic review, thematic coding software (NVivo), and direct clinical research roles, including work with an MGH team studying virtual reality mental health interventions and the RTI International epidemiological study of mental and substance use disorders. I am currently a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, where my primary courses are Community Psychology and History and Systems of Psychology.

• American Psychological Association
• Massachusetts Psychological Association