I am a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who have research experience in the field of mental health. I obtained my Bachelor’s in Clinical Psychology at Tufts University (USA) where I contributed to two different research labs (Emotion Brain and Behavior Lab) and Tufts Applied Cognition Lab. In my final year I did a clinical research internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Center for Addiction Medicine. I received my Master’s degree in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology from Vrije Universiteit (Netherlands) where I investigated how novel treatments (such as Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) can be used to treat anxiety disorders.
At UAB I will focus on involving mental health users in the research process in order to tailor investigation to their needs, with a particular focus on using mental health users’ input to develop better assessment methods and understand the nature of their experiences.