Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student	Research/Training Interests
Margaret Baer Area: Clinical Office: UH 5030 Phone: 419-530-4681 Margaret.Baer@rockets.utoledo.edu	Co-occuring suicide ideation or attempts with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Proximal risk factors for suicide ideation, suicide attempts, and NSSI Longitudinal and micro-longitudinal methods (e.g, ecological momentary assessment)
Anna Barbano Area: Clinical Office: UH 5020B Phone: 419-530-4681 Anna.Barbano@rockets.utoledo.edu	Post-traumatic psychopathology Post-trauma health and behaviors Individualized treatment outcomes
Rachel Bond Area: Clinical Phone: 419-318-7004 Rachel.Bond@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social manifestations of generalized anxiety disorder Cyberpsychology Fear of missing out
Kirsten Buckingham Area: Clinical Office: UH 1061 Kirsten.Buckingham@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychotic spectrum disorders Psychological assessment, specifically the Rorschach Performance Assessment System Prodromal psychosis
Maria Elena Canini Area: Clinical MariaElena.Canini@rockets.utoledo.edu	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
Bailey Crittenden Area: Clinical Erin.Crittenden@rockets.utoledo.edu	Youth personality vulnerability/risk factors to psychopathology Personality development Personality assessment
Raegan Cupp Area: Clinical Raegan.Cupp@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mindfulness interventions Mindfulness in school-based settings
Zachary DeMoss Area: Clinical Zachary.DeMoss@rockets.utoledo.edu	Suicide Emotion Regulation Psychophysiology
Estella Fox Area: Clinical Estella.Fox@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social media addiction Problematic phone use Emotion regulation
Kayla Hall Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070B Kayla.Hall2@rockets.utoledo.edu	The roles of negative urgency, distress tolerance, and other emotion regulation strategies in the development/maintenance of PTSD Risk and resiliency factors in the development of PTSD and substance use diagnoses Interventions that target maladaptive coping in individuals with PTSD and substance use diagnoses
Caleb Hallauer Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Caleb.Hallauer@rockets.utoledo.edu	Internet gaming disorder Problematic social media use Trauma and technology use
Elyse Hutcheson Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070A Elyse.Hutcheson@rockets.utoledo.edu	Anxiety symptoms and technology use Intolerance of uncertainty in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders Problematic social media and smartphone use
Christopher Jurgens Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070C Christopher.Jurgens@rockets.utoledo.edu	Positive psychological interventions Online community psychology Theoretical processes of change in interventions
Lauren Kramer Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Lauren.Kramer3@rockets.utoledo.edu	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
Andrew Kurtz Area: Clinical Office: UH 5040B Andrew.Kurtz6@rockets.utoledo.edu	Investigation of the contexts in which self-destructive behaviors occur in SGMs by using novel experimental paradigms Impact of invalidation and validation on maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors Prevention and treatment of self-destructive behaviors in sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) Emotion dysregulation and trauma in SGMs Development of culturally sensitive interventions to improve SGM health
Justin R. Leiter-McBeth Area: Clinical Justin.LeiterMcBeth@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mindfulness Emotion regulation Interoceptive awareness Psychophysiology
Adam Mann Area: Clinical Office: UH 5040A Adam.Mann2@rockets.utoledo.edu	Nonsuicidal self-injury Suicide Sexual and gender minority populations/LGBTQ
Samantha Mayer Area: Clinical Samantha.Mayer2@rockets.utoledo.edu	Trauma in the context of authority figures Trauma and health behavior
Ingrid Morales-Ramirez Area: Clinical Ingrid.Morales-Ramirez@rockets.utoledo.edu	Racial/ethnic minority groups Anxiety Positive psychology Depression First-generation college students
Emily Roemhild Area: Clinical Emily.Roemhild@rockets.utoledo.edu	Parental influences on child/adolescent anxiety Role of familial accommodation in child/adolescent anxiety Role of emotion regulation and anxiety control in anxiety symptomology Self-efficacy in relation to anxiety development Early prevention and intervention Child and parent self-report disagreement on beliefs, behaviors, and anxiety symptomology
Emily Rooney Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Phone: 417-530-2312 Emily.Rooney@rockets.utoledo.edu	Trauma Risk and protective factors in the development of psychopathology Emotion regulation
Kayla Scamaldo Area: Clinical Office: UH 5020B Kayla.Scamaldo@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotion regulation and dysregulation in borderline personality disorder Substance abuse Experience sampling methods (e.g., ecological momentary assessment and electronically activated recorder Autonomic nervous system activity (e.g., heart rate variability, impedance, electrodermal activity)
Katherine Sheehan Area: Clinical Office: UH 5280 Katherine.Sheehan@rockets.utoledo.edu	Comorbid emotional dysregulation, especially suicidality/ self-injury, and anxiety disorders/ OCD Transdiagnostic symptoms presentations Improving treatment outcomes in cases with comorbidities Stigmatization of mental illness
Alexa Skolnik Area: Clinical Office: UH 5280 Alexa.Skolnik@rockets.utoledo.edu	Person-specific mechanisms that drive etiology, maintenance, and treatment of traumatic stress disorders
Tara Spitzen Area: Clinical Tara.Spitzen@rockets.utoledo.edu	Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Emotion dysregulation Emotion duration Relief Ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
Mackenzie Trevethan Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Mackenzie.Trevethan@rockets.utoledo.edu	Child anxiety Familial relationships Early prevention and intervention Minority populations
Teona Velehorschi Area: Clinical Teona.Velehorschi@rockets.utoledo.edu	Stress and anxiety, particularly in performance settings Physical exercise and emotion regulation strategies Clinical sport psychology
Ariana Vidaña Area: Clinical Ariana.Vidana@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotion dysregulation in PTSD and substance use disorders Interpersonal relationships in substance use treatment Assessing substance use treatment outcomes in minority populations
Avleen Walia Area: Clinical Avleen.Walia@rockets.utoledo.edu	Risk and resilience factors for child anxiety, rumination, and obsessive thinking Specific parenting behaviors influencing child anxiety and emotino regulation abilities Prevention of child anxiety and emotion dysregulation South Asian populations
Noelle Warfford Area: Clinical Noelle.Warfford@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychological assessment Assessing psychosis, particularly using the Rorschach Assessing disordered thinking

Department of Psychology

Meet Our Graduate Students

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