Dr. Lefevre received her B.A in Linguistics and Languages in Grenoble, France, where she is from, in 1992, and M.A. in Communications at the University of California in San Diego in 1995.
She started counseling families of teenagers coping with substance use disorders in 1998 and eventually went back to graduate school in 2002 to obtain her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from The Wright Institute at Berkeley. Her clinical training consists of inpatient and outpatient intensive, short-term and long-term therapy with families, couples, individual adults and children, and group treatment.
Dr. Lefevre has provided therapeutic services and neuropsychological and psychopharmacological consultations in a variety of settings, including substance abuse treatment clinics, primary care clinics, hospitals, schools and community mental health outpatient clinics. She currently has a mindfulness-based practice in Marin County specialized in the treatment of individuals coping with chronic illnesses, and provides psycho-educational coaching for single and divorced parents and couples in transitions.