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Department of Psychology

Meet Our Clinical Psychology Graduate Students

Fall 2024 Cohort

Emma Church

Emma Church

Area Clinical
Office UH 5040B

Degrees BA in Psychology Cleveland State University 2021 & MA in Clinical Psychology Cleveland State University 2024

Advisor Peter Mezo

Research Interests

  • Self-management, emotion regulation, and internalizing behaviors in adolescence
  • Self-regulated learning, youth, and adolescent outcomes
  • Early prevention of and interventions for serious mental illness
Kim Görner

Kim Görner

Area Clinical

Office UH 1062

Email kim.gorner@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý

Degree B.A., Psychology, Minor in Counseling University of Toledo, 2023

Advisor Gregory Meyer

Research Interests

  • Psychosis: early identificationÌýand intervention opportunities; development of screening/assessment tools; implementation of screening programsÌý
  • Multimethod psychological assessment
  • Severe mental illness among homeless, incarcerated, and formerly incarcerated populations: development and implementation of screening and intervention programs; prevention of recidivism and homelessness
Courtney Kenworthy

Courtney Kenworthy

Area Clinical

Office UH 5070D

Email courtney.kenworthy@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý

Degree B.S., Psychology University of Mount Union, 2024

Advisor Dr. Francis

Research Interests

  • Risk and protective factors for child/adolescent anxiety disorders
  • Prevention and treatment strategies for child/adolescent anxiety
  • Familial factors (parent/sibling attachment)
Sadie Stanek

Sadie Stanek

Area Experimental

Office UH 1880D

Email mercedes.stanek@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý

Degree B.S., Psychology Ohio Northern University, 2024

Advisor Kamala London Newton

Research Interests

  • Eyewitness and earwitness accuracy
  • Interviewing practices

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Fall 2023 Cohort

Jake Avendano

Jake Avendano

Area Clinical
Office UH 5020B
Email jacob.avendano@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý

Degrees B.S., Psychology (Minor in Finance), University of Dayton, 2021
M.A., Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Texas at Tyler, 2023

AdvisorPeter Mezo, Ph.D.

Research Interests

  • Emotional flexibility, specifically context sensitivity and ER strategy repertoire
  • Emotion (dys)regulation, as measured by ecological momentary assessments
Caroline Born

Caroline Born

Office UH 5020D
Area Clinical
Email caroline.born@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees B.A., Bowling Green State University, 2021
M.A., University of Dayton, 2023

Research Interests

  • Adaptive regulation/coping skills in populations with severe mental illness
  • Crisis-related interventions
  • Suicidality
  • Third-wave CBT modalities
Vasavi Shanthi

Vasavi Shanthi

Area Clinical
Email vasavi.shanthi@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree M.Sc., Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, 2023

Research Interests

  • Problematic smartphone use, problematic social media use, internet addictions
  • Body image and eating disorders in adolescence

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Fall 2022 Cohort

Estella Fox

Estella Fox

Area Clinical
Email estella.fox@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.A., Psychology, Reed College, 2019

Research Interests

  • Social media addiction
  • Problematic phone use
  • Emotion regulation
Samantha Mayer

Samantha Mayer

Area Clinical
Email samantha.mayer2@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.S., Fordham University, 2017

Research Interests

  • Trauma in the context of authority figures
  • Trauma and health behavior
Katherine Sheehan

Katherine Sheehan

Area Clinical
Office UH 5280
Email katherine.sheehan@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees B.S., Psychology (Minor in Latin American and Latino Studies), Fordham University, 2020
Graduate Student, Clinical

Research Interests

  • Comorbid emotional dysregulation, especially suicidality/ self-injury, and anxiety disorders/ OCD
  • Transdiagnostic symptom presentations
  • Improving treatment outcomes in cases with comorbidities
  • Stigmatization of mental illness

Alexa Skolnik

Area Clinical
Office UH 5280
Email alexa.skolnik@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.A., Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Miami, 2020Ìý

Research Interests

  • Person-specific mechanisms that drive the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of traumatic stress disorders
Avleen Walia

Avleen Walia

Area Clinical
Email avleen.walia@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees B.S., Clinical Psychology (Minor in Education Studies), University of California at San Diego, 2020

Research Interests

  • Risk and resilience factors for child anxiety, rumination, and obsessive thinking
  • Specific parenting behaviors influencing child anxiety and emotion regulation abilities
  • Prevention of child anxiety and emotion dysregulation
  • South Asian populations

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Fall 2021 Cohort

Maria Elena Canini

Maria Elena Canini

Area Clinical
Email mariaelena.canini@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees Master's degree, Southern Illinois University, 2021; Bachelor's degree, Southern Illinois University, 2019; Associate degree, St. Louis Community College, 2017

Research Interests

  • Mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions
  • Mindfulness interventions for the community - with incarcerated individuals, adolescents in juvenile detention and foster care, first responders, families, students, and women on their monthly cycle
  • Emotion regulation and resiliency training

Zachary Demoss

Area Clinical
Email zachary.demoss@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees M.A., Cleveland State University, 2021; B.A, University of Iowa, 2015

Research Interests

  • Suicide
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Psychophysiology

Lauren Kramer

Area Clinical
Office UH 1880D
Email lauren.kramer3@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees B.A, Psychology, Miami University, 2021; B.S., Family Science, Miami University, 2021

Research Interests

  • Child/adolescent internalizing disorders
  • Risk and resilience factors for child/adolescent psychopathology
  • Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic construct
  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Parental influence on child/adolescent anxiety
Ingrid Morales-Ramirez

Ingrid Morales-Ramirez

Area Clinical
Email ingrid.morales-ramirez@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees Master's in Applied Clinical Psychology from Penn State University; B.A., Psychology and Health, Medicine and Society, Lehigh University (Double Major)

Research Interests

  • Racial/ethnic minority groups
  • Anxiety
  • Positive psychology
  • Depression
  • First-generation college students
Teona Velehorschi

Teona Velehorschi

Area Clinical
Email teona.velehorschi@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan, 2019

Research Interests

  • Stress and anxiety, particularly in performance settings
  • Physical exercise and emotion regulation strategies
  • Clinical sport psychology

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Fall 2020 Cohort

Rachel Bond

Rachel Bond

Area Clinical
Phone 419-318-7004
Email rachel.bond@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.A., Psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2018Ìý

Research Interests

  • Social manifestations of generalized anxiety disorder
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Fear of missing out
Bailey Crittenden

Bailey Crittenden

Area Clinical
Email erin.crittenden@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2020

Research Interests

  • Youth personality vulnerability/risk factors to psychopathology
  • Personality development
  • Personality assessmentÌý
Raegen Cupp

Raegan Cupp

Area Clinical
Email raegan.cupp@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degree B.A., University of Toledo, 2020

Research Interests

  • Mindfulness interventions
  • Mindfulness in school-based settings
Elyse Hutcheson

Elyse Hutcheson

Area Clinical
Office UH 5070A
Email elyse.hutcheson@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees B.A., Psychology and Art, Hillsdale College, 2018

Research Interests

  • Anxiety symptoms and technology use
  • Intolerance of uncertainty in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
  • Problematic social media and smartphone use
Christopher Jurgens

Christopher Jurgens

Area Clinical
Office UH 5070C
Email christopher.jurgens@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Dayton; B.S., Psychology, Otterbein University

Research Interests

  • Positive psychological interventions
  • Online community psychology
  • Theoretical processes of change in interventions

Adam Mann

Area Clinical
Office UH 5040A
Email adam.mann2@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý
Degrees M.S., Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018; B.A., Russian Language and Literature, Davidson College, 2015

Research Interests

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury
  • Suicide
  • Sexual and gender minority populations/LGBTQ
Mackenzie Trevethan

Mackenzie Trevethan

Area Clinical
Office UH 1880D
Email mackenzie.trevethan@rockets.utoledo.eduÌý

Degree B.A., Miami University, 2020

Research Interests

  • Child anxiety
  • Familial relationships
  • Early prevention and intervention
  • Minority populations

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Fall 2019 Cohort

Noelle Warfford

Noelle Warfford

Area Clinical
Email noelle.warfford@rockets.utoledo.edu
DegreeÌýB.S., Roanoke College, 2019

Research Interests

  • Psychological assessment
  • Assessing psychosis, particularly using the Rorschach
  • Assessing disordered thinking

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