Linnie Wheeless, J.D.
Background Information
Linnie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. She earned her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago and her B.A. in Psychology from DePaul University. She previously worked in the Anxiety Disorder Clinic and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic under the direction of Dr. Kim Gratz and Dr. Matthew Tull at the PERT Lab when it was located at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Prior to moving to Toledo, Linnie completed an externship in Jackson, Mississippi, where she provided Dialectical Behavior Therapy and other acceptance-based behavioral therapies to patients with borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Research/Clinical Interests
Linnie’s research interests include the role of emotion dysregulation and experiential avoidance in the development and maintenance of anxiety pathology and personality disorders. She is also interested in the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions and investigating whether specific facets of mindfulness function as mechanisms for change during treatment.
Representative Publications and Presentations
Tull, M. T., Berghoff, C. R., Wheeless, L. E., Cohen, R. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2017). PTSD symptom severity and emotion regulation strategy use during trauma cue exposure among patients with substance use disorders: Associations with negative affect, craving, and cortisol reactivity. Behavior Therapy.
Berghoff, C. R., Wheeless, L. E., Ritzert, T. R., Wooley, C. M., & Forsyth, J. P. (2017). Mindfulness meditation adherence in a college sample: Comparison of a 10-min versus 20-min 2-week daily practice. Mindfulness, 1-9.
Konkle-Parker, D., Fouquier, K., Portz, K., Wheeless, L., Arnold, T., Harris, C., & Turan, J. (2017). Women’s decision-making about self-protection during sexual activity in the deep south of the USA: a grounded theory study. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-15.
Wheeless, L. E., Dixon, L., Cohen, R., Tull, M., & Gratz, K. L. (2016). An examination of the moderating role of mindfulness in the relation between worry and anxiety symptoms severity. Poster presentation at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America 2016 Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Brabec, C., Ciarloni, E. Dixon, L., Wheeless, L. E., Montgomery, D., Tull, M. Marshall, G. (2016). Brief behavioral activation intervention for depressed urticaria patients. Poster presented at the University of Mississippi Medical Center Research Day.
Konkle-Parker, D., Fouquier, M. K., Arnold, T., Harris, C., Portz, K. J., Wheeless, L. E. (2016). Decision-making about self-protection from HIV when engaging in risky sexual behavior in the southern USA. Poster presented at the Sixth International Workshop on HIV & Women, Boston, MA, February 20-21, 2016.