Dr. Soniak is the Capacity Building Director of South Carolina's Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Network. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University New England. Dr. Soniak completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Medical School Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health and her pre-doctoral internship in infant mental health at Tulane University School of Medicine. She has a strong passion for working with infants, young children and their families and believes that it is imperative that all young children should have access to culturally sensitive, relationship-based, and trauma-informed care. She is Endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist (IMH-E) by the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health. Dr. Soniak has a particular enthusiasm for providing services to young children and families in the child welfare system and building child-serving systems of care through professional development, policy/advocacy, and reflective consultation/supervision.