Ms. O'Gara received her Undergraduate Degree from Albright College in Reading, PA in 1991. She worked at Reading Rehabilitation Hospital before attending Rutgers University where she received her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work in 1994. Upon graduation, she held a position on the inpatient psychiatric unit at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ. Ms. O'Gara then worked in the field of Therapeutic Foster Care and within the New Jersey State Prison system before opening her private practice in 2004.