Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student	Research/Training Interests
Jake Avendano Area: Clinical Jacob.Avendano@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotional flexibility, specifically context sensitivity and ER strategy repertoire Emotion (dys)regulation, as measured by ecological momentary assessments
Rachel Bond Area: Clinical Rachel.Bond@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social manifestations of generalized anxiety disorder Cyberpsychology Fear of missing out
Caroline Born Area: Clinical Caroline.Born@rockets.utoledo.edu	Adaptive regulation/coping skills in populations with severe mental illness Crisis-related interventions Suicidality Third-wave CBT modalities



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
Elizabeth Champlin Area: Experimental Elizabeth.Champlin@rockets.utoledo.edu	Motivation and performance

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

Riley Grady Area: Experimental Office: UH 1880A Riley.Grady@rockets.utoledo.edu	Children's experience in the legal system Children viewing police lineups Nervous laughter




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
Ann Karmol Area: Experimental Ann.Karmol@rockets.utoledo.edu	Judgment and decision-making Heuristics and biases Individual differences Behavioral economics Science communication and misinformation Moral psychology
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

Grace Kim Area: Experimental Grace.Kim2@rockets.utoledo.edu	Race on perceptions of child sexual abuse False memory False accusations Eyewitness testimony
Frances Lauten Area: Experimental Office: UH 1900 Frances.Lauten@rockets.utoledo.edu	Children's eating behaviors Preventative measures for disordered eating and eating disorders Impact of parental disordered eating on the eating patterns of their young children
Steven Lenarduzzi Area: Experimental Steven.Lenarduzzi@rockets.utoledo.edu	Hemispheric differences in belief updating
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


Jessica Saki Area: Experimental Jessica.Saki@rockets.utoledo.edu	Moral decision making Moral behaviors Moral dilemmas Emotion regulation Rejection

Vasavi Shanthi Area: Clinical Vasavi.Shanthi@rockets.utoledo.edu	Problematic smartphone use, problematic social media use, internet addictions Body image and eating disorders in adolescence.
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
Adelyn Sherrard Area: Experimental Adelyn.Sherrard@rockets.utoledo.edu	Children's eating behavior Parental feeding practices Coparenting
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

Emily Spotts Area: Experimental Office: UH 6504 Emily.Jason@rockets.utoledo.edu	Placebo/nocebo effects and treatment side effects Alteration of treatment perceptions Effects of message types on treatment choice
Mackenzie Tanner Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Mackenzie.Trevethan@rockets.utoledo.edu	Child anxiety Familial relationships Early prevention and intervention Minority populations
Michael Vang Area: Experimental Office: UH 6509 Michael.Vang@rockets.utoledo.edu	Preventative health behaviors Physician-patient communication Placebo and nocebo effect
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
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
Joshua Williams Area: Experimental Joshua.Williams10@rockets.utoledo.edu	Anxiety in the context of technology use, acceptance Social capital Locus of control, self-efficacy

Department of Psychology

Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student

Research/Training Interests

Grace Kim