I like many others, struggled to find my clinical niche stuck between two worlds in my professional identity. I focused my graduate and post-graduate training on Geropsychology- mental health treatment of those 65 years or older. During my early career, I worked with older adults at various stages of the aging and independence spectrum from independent with some impairment in daily living functioning to home-bound or living in a long-term care facility. As a trained Geropsychologist, I normalize aging and its impact as a universal experience faced at various proximities, offering a new perspective on the #yolo phenomena. Aging is also a form of diversity; like other forms of diversity, it is often underserved in the mental health and healthcare setting. 

Early during the pandemic, I reconnected with my passion for working with other diverse populations and joined the virtual group practice, The Black Girl Doctor, where I fell back in love with creating space for folks who look like me. However, I felt a disconnect in my professional identities and struggled to find an intersection until recently, when I recognized that I was sandwiched between my professional passions. This recognition allowed me to shift my clinical focus to providing educational resources, emotional support, and skill-building strategies for adults, especially BIPOC/Black identifying folks, caring for their aging parents and loved ones, and becoming Dr. Dom The Sandwich Generation Psychologist!