Natalie Arbid (2020)
Master’s Thesis: Attentional and emotional consequences of emotional acceptance and suppression in an elevated anxiety sample
Dissertation: Preliminary evaluation of a culturally adapted stress management prevention workshop for Latinx students
Internship: Mt. Sinai Beth Israel
Jen Martinez (2020)
Master’s Thesis: Coping with racism: Emotional acceptance and systemic attribution of racism as buffers against social anxiety among people of color
Dissertation: The Effectiveness of a Compassionate Awareness, Acceptance, Valued Action, and Flexible Coping Intervention for Race-based Stress on Momentary Coping and Distress Symptoms
Internship: University of Maryland – Baltimore County Counseling Center
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine
Liz Eustis (2018)
Master’s Thesis:Reductions in experiential avoidance as a mediator of change in symptom outcome and quality of life in acceptance-based behavior therapy and applied relaxation for generalized anxiety disorder.
Dissertation: “Surviving and Thriving During Stress”: Bridging the gap with technology, a web-based acceptance-based behavioral therapy prevention program for University students
Internship: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Adult Track
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University
Current Position: Clinical Development Lead, Big Health
Sarah Krill Williston (2018)
Master’s Thesis: Pathways to well-being in the lives of student veterans
Dissertation: Mental health literacy and stigma among returning veterans: Cultural correlates, mutability, and relations with healthcare utilization
Internship: Boston VA Healthcare System, PTSD Clinical Team and Center for Returning Veterans rotations
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: National Center for PTSD, Boston VA Healthcare System, Project Coordinator Position
Current Position: Staff Psychologist, Boston VA Healthcare System
Email: Sarah.Krill@gmail.com
L.G. (Rollins) Ward (2018)
Master’s Thesis: The effects of nesting environment on neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury.
Dissertation: Does Mindfulness Support Empathy?
Internship: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Behavioral Medicine track
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Research Fellow, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Adolescent/Young Adult Biobehavioral HIV Fellowship
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
Email: lgrollins@gmail.com
Lucas Morgan (2015)
Master’s Thesis: The practice effect: The relationships among the frequency of early formal mindfulness practice, mindfulness skills, worry, and quality of life in an acceptance-based behavior therapy for generalized anxiety disorder.
Dissertation: In the face of adversity: Valued living and decentering as buffering factors in the relationships among social disadvantage, psychological distress, drinking to cope and problem drinking.
Internship: I Ola Lahui Rural Hawai’i Behavioral Health, Rural mental health and primary care focus, Honolulu and Hilo, Hawai’i
Post-doctoral Fellowship:I Ola Lahui Rural Hawai’i Behavioral Health, Geropsychology focus, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Current Position: Private Practice, Hawai’i
Email: lucas.morgan@gmail.com
Jessica Graham (-LoPresti) (2014)
Master’s Thesis: The relationship between racist experiences and anxiety in a Black sample: Moderating effects of church-based social support
Dissertation: Racism and anxiety in a Black American sample: The role of mediators and a brief mindfulness manipulation
Internship: Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Women’s Health Sciences Division, Boston VA Healthcare System
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Suffolk University
Email: jessica.rose.graham@gmail.com
Kathleen Sullivan Kalill(2012)
Master´s Thesis: Understanding male violence toward female intimate partners: An exploratory examination of the contributions of childhood abuse, attachment, and dissociation.
Dissertation: The role of difficulties in emotion regulation in the relationship between experiences of trauma and later dissociation
Internship: Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology
Current Positions: Research Associate, National Center for PTSD, Boston VA Healthcare System; Private Practice, Eastham, MA.
Email: ksullivankalill@gmail.com
Michael Treanor (2012)
Master´s Thesis: The Relationship Between control-related beliefs and anxiety: A multidimensional approach
Dissertation: The impact of mindfulness on exposure and extinction processes in social anxiety
Internship: Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Post-doctoral Fellow, UCLA Anxiety Disorders Research Center
Current Position: Clinical Psychologist, Behavioral Associates, Los Angeles
Email: mtrean@gmail.com
Cara Fuchs (2011)
Master´s Thesis: Understanding the experience and management of subjectively negative emotions among individuals who identify with working class family backgrounds
Dissertation: Exploring predictors of well-being after exposure to inter-caregiver aggression in childhood: Examining the role of emotional support and emotional and cognitive processing
Internship: University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Adult Track
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Research Fellow, Brown University Medical School, Integrated Primary Care
Current Position: Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, BU School of Medicine; Vice Chair, Chief of Psychology; Director, Integrated Behavioral Health, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center
Email: cfuchs@bu.edu
Lindsey West (Rollock) (2011)
Master´s Thesis: The Influence of Stereotype Endorsement and Coping on Racism- Related Stress- Distress in Black Women
Dissertation: Functioning in the face of racism and its uncertainties:The potential buffering effects of values clarification and values consistency in a Black American sample
Internship: Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Health System
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Georgia Health Sciences University in the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior and the Education Discovery Institute
Current position: Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Health Behavior and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Augusta University in Augusta, GA.
Email: lindwest@gmail.com
Heidi Barrett-Model (2010)
Dissertation: Understanding revictimization: The impact of emotion suppression, acceptance, and PTSD symptomatology on risk detection abilities in sexual assault survivors
Internship: Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Bedford VA Healthcare System
Current Position: Private Practice, Cambridge, MA
Email: heidi.barrett@gmail.com
Shannon Erisman (2010)
Master´s Thesis: The Role of Mindfulness in Emotion Regulation: Testing the Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention
Dissertation: Psychosis-proneness, mindfulness, and positive emotional experience: Examining correlational and causal relationships
Internship: Massachusetts Mental Health Center/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medial School
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Bedford VA, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Track
Current Position: Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Postpartum Day Hospital at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Email: shannon.erisman@gmail.com
Darren W. Holowka (2008)
Dissertation: Experiential Awareness and Psychological Well-Being: Preliminary Evidence of a Proposed Common Factor.
Internship: Royal Ottawa Healthcare Group Pre-doctoral Residency Program in Clinical Psychology
Post-doctoral Fellowship: National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System
Current Position:Staff Psychologist, Rhode Island Hospital
LaTanya Rucker Sobczak (2005)
Master´s Thesis: Racial identity and the cognitive appraisal of racial stress in African Americans
Dissertation: Correlates of worry and GAD in Black/African Americans
Internship: Suffolk University Counseling Center
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry at the Duke Medical Center/Durham VA Medical Center
Current Position: IDD/TBI Clinical Director at Alliance Health
Email: jsheria75@gmail.com
Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault (2005)
Master´s Thesis: The effects of cognitive appraisal on emotional responding and recovery from emotional events
Dissertation: Inflexibility in state and trait worry: Implications for adaptive functioning.
Internship: Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Research Fellow, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System
Current Position: Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University
Email: Ksalters@gmail.com
Yonit Schorr (2005)
Master´s Thesis: “The impact of pre-deployment factors and mission experience on psychiatric outcomes following a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia and an exploration of potential buffering factors.
Dissertation: “Quality of life after exposure to trauma: Moving beyond symptom assessment and exploring resilience factors”
Internship: May Institute
Current Position: Research Fellow, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System
Email: Yschorr@hotmail.com
Matthew Tull (2005)
Dissertation: A preliminary investigation of emotional avoidance and emotional awareness among a sample of non-treatment seeking panickers
Internship: Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Post-doctoral Fellow and Director of Basic Emotion Research at the UMD Center for Additions, Personality and Emotion Research, College Park, MD.
Current Position: Clinical Quality Supervisor, Lyra Health
Email: MTull@lyrahealth.com
Kim Gratz (2003)
Master´s Thesis: The measurement, functions, and etiology of deliberate self-harm
Dissertation: A theoretically-based etiological model of deliberate self-harm: The role of childhood maltreatment, affect intensity/reactivity, emotional inexpressivity, and emotion dysregulation in self-harm behavior
Internship: McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Clinical and Research Fellow, Center for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Senior Clinical Quality Manager at Lyra Health
Email: Kgratz@lyrahealth.com
Matthew Jakupcak (2003)
Master´s Thesis: “The role of masculine ideology and masculine gender role stress in men´s perpetration of relationship violence”
Dissertation: “Emotionality, Masculine Gender Role Stress, and Shame in Relationship to Men’s Anger, Hostility, and Aggression”
Internship: Seattle VA, Puget Sound Health Care System
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
Current Position: Senior Director of Clinical Quality, Lyra Health, Inc.
Email: MJakupcak@lyrahealth.com
