From her origins as an early childhood educator, she went on to complete her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from New York University in 2008. Rebecca completed an Infant Mental Health externship in 2018 and will finish the Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship in spring 2024. She is endorsed by the Washington Association of Infant Mental Health. Her professional home is Cooper House, an infant mental health practice in Seattle, WA, where she serves children birth-five and their families, providing equity-centered, developmentally-minded, and relationship-focused occupational therapy services. She serves the clinical team in the role of Integrated Clinical Model Lead, working to develop and expand their unique transdisciplinary mental health and occupational therapy assessment and intervention model. In addition to her clinical work, Rebecca provides training and consultation for parents, teachers, and other professionals in the community. She has lectured locally and nationally, including Profectum, Zero to Three, the Barnard Center for Infant Mental Health, and the Washington Occupational Therapy Association. She is committed to advocacy for policy change reflecting social justice, trauma-responsive practices, and relational health in her writing and participation in committees and work groups. From her first conference in 1999, Rebecca has embraced the remarkable power of the DIR® model to describe social emotional development and support the formation of robust relational health. She attended the Institute in 2008 & 2011, completed Fellows in 2014, Trainers in 2020 and has benefitted from countless hours of training, master classes, and mentoring sessions by so many of the visionary faculty members. She is thrilled for the opportunity to contribute to the future of Profectum. Among Rebecca’s many professional interests: the influence of praxis on the development of self & agency, working memory and theory of mind in development, the bi-directional influence of attachment and developmental differences, embodied parental reflective functioning, trauma, social justice and neurodiversity affirming practice.

She has +25 years of experience in evaluation and intervention of people with challenges in the development of communication, language and/or speech using therapeutic approaches from a relational and evolutionary perspective. She is certified in the DIRFloortime® therapeutic model at ICDL (International Council on Development and Learning) and at the Profectum Foundation, United States. She is also a teacher (Faculty Assistant) at the Profectum foundation. She is a trainer of the FAN approach (Facilitating Attuned Interactions) at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, a resource that facilitates accompaniment to families in an empathetic and collaborative way. She has been a volunteer at the Institute on Disabilities and Human Development, at the University of Chicago (United States). At the same time, she has training in other resources mediated through parents such as the PACT approach (Pre-School Autism Communication Trial) from the University of Manchester in England and the IMPACT approach, a support program for families with children with disabilities. autism and other challenges in the development of social communication. She also has experience and Postgraduate studies in Augmentative and Alternative Communication in AEDIN and the Prompt approach (Points for the Restructuring of Oral and Phonetic Muscular Objectives). She is the mother of 3 young people; She's argentine; She resides in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She is employed at Cooper House located in Seattle, WA. Cooper House specializes in supporting the development of infants, very young children, and their families. Here she partners with licensed mental health clinicians using an integrated clinical model for intervention. She is endorsed by the Washington Association for Infant Mental Health as an Infant Mental Health Mentor – Clinical. She provides reflective consultation for birth-to-three providers in her community, and through Cooper House she is a trainer for the Erickson Institute’s Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) model of parent attunement.