Current Students
I am a third-year student in the clinical psychology program at NIU. I am originally from Beckley, WV, and following high school, I completed a four-year enlistment in the United States Army. I received my B.A. in psychology from Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. After graduating, I worked at the National Center for PTSD in Boston, MA as the primary research assistant for a randomized control trial comparing Written Exposure Therapy with Prolonged Exposure for Veterans diagnosed with PTSD. My research interests revolve around dimensional models of psychopathology, conceptualization and measurement of trauma-related psychopathology, negative trauma-related belief entrenchment. Outside of graduate school, I enjoy boxing, watching movies and playing intramural sports.
I am currently a third-year student in the clinical psychology program at NIU. I am originally from Elizabethtown, PA, and received my B.A. in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. After graduating, I spent two years as the lab manager of the Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes Lab at Northwestern University. During this time, I developed my interest in self-concept while looking at biracial stereotypes. My research interests broadly include examining cognitive changes following trauma exposure, executive functioning, sense of self, sense of belonging and interpersonal trauma. My thesis project seeks to examine automatic and self-reported cognitions related to conceptualizing oneself as traumatized. In my free time, I enjoy being active, board games and video games, exploring and trying new hobbies.
I am a fifth-year student in the clinical psychology program. I grew up in Londonderry, NH and received my B.A. in psychology with a minor in Spanish from Stonehill College. After graduating, I spent two years working in Providence, RI researching an intervention to aid pregnant and postpartum women dealing with abusive relationships. Subsequently, I spent three years at McLean Hospital working in the Neurobiology of Fear Lab and the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program. My research interests broadly include exposure to interpersonal trauma and the subsequent development and maintenance of PTSD and other trauma-related disorders, as well as clinical treatment and response. My thesis project explored the influence of childhood emotional abuse on cognitive biases toward guilt and shame. My dissertation seeks to expand on this research by exploring the impact of a self-compassion intervention in reducing shame and psychopathology among women reporting history of childhood emotional abuse. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with friends and family, practicing yoga, cooking/baking and singing/listening to music.
I am a second-year student in the clinical psychology program at NIU. I am from Louisville, KY and graduate from Miami University with a B.A. in Psychology, Neuroscience and Data Analytics. As an undergraduate RA, I worked in a lab that studied Trauma, Interpersonal Violence and Emotion Regulation. My current research interests center on the role of coping and emotion regulation in the development and maintenance of trauma and stress response. Additionally, I am interested in exploring alternative conceptualizations of traumatic response including moral injury and racial trauma. In my free time, I enjoy playing the piano, guitar and ukelele. I also enjoy playing sports with other students in the program.
I am a sixth-year student in the clinical psychology program at NIU. I graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a B.A. in psychology, a B.A. in family services, and minors in gerontology, mental health and women and gender studies. As an undergraduate RA, I worked in clinical, cognitive, and developmental research labs on studies that ranged from climate change attitudes to cross-cultural counseling. I worked for several years with individuals with intellectual disabilities and severe mental illness and interned with violence prevention and sexual assault advocacy organizations. My research interests include pathways to victimization, risk, coping, and resilience in trauma survivors, motivations for sexual risk taking and experiential avoidance. Clinically, I provide compassion-focused and individualized care, and am most interested in the treatment of PTSD and other mood and anxiety disorders in clients facing systemic barriers. My thesis focused on the impacts of child abuse exposure on frequency and motivations for risky sex and substance use. My dissertation examines sexual discounting as it relates to trauma history. In my free time, I like to read, bike new trails, embroider, play board and card games, travel, and watch bad reality TV with my spouse.
I am a second-year student in the clinical psychology program at NIU. I am from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and I graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.A. in psychology. Before starting graduate school, I worked with individuals who have neurodegenerative disorders. My previous research experience has centered on working with the United Nations Development Program examining mechanisms and prevention of violence against women and girls from an international perspective. Additional research experiences at NIU have centered around behavioral neuroscience paradigms and the impact of attention-based interventions on acute fear responses. My current research interests broadly surround experiences of trauma, with a specific focus on the co-occurrence of traumatic experience and alcohol use, the transmission of generational trauma and the role of emotion dysregulation in PTSD. Outside of graduate school, I enjoy hiking in the mountains, cooking unnecessarily elaborate meals and training my German Shepherds.
I am a first-year student in the clinical psychology program at NIU. I grew up in San Carlos, California, and received my B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton University, with a certificate in Values and Public Life. A few years after graduating, I realized that I wanted to work in the field of clinical psychology, with a focus on trauma. I then spent three years at the National Center for PTSD in Palo Alto, CA, as the primary research assistant for an observational study of sleep and suicidality among Veterans. My research interests center around the impacts of prolonged interpersonal traumas, particularly in childhood and in the context of marginalized identities, with a focus on the role of emotion regulation difficulties. In my free time, I enjoy reading, hiking and watching anime.
I am currently a fourth-year student in the clinical psychology program here at NIU. I was born and raised in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and graduated with a B.S. in psychology, along with a Spanish minor at Illinois State University. My research and clinical interests include examining racial trauma in minority populations, the psychological effects of racial discrimination and treatment of psychopathology in BIPOC communities. I enjoy binge-watching anime, traveling, spending time with loved ones and true crime.
