Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Emma Church

Area Clinical
Office UH 5040B

Email emma.church2@rockets.utoledo.edu 

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

Area Clinical

Office UH 1062

Email kim.gorner@rockets.utoledo.edu 

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

Advisor Gregory Meyer

Research Interests

• Psychosis: early identification and intervention opportunities; development of screening/assessment tools; implementation of screening programs 
• 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

Area Clinical

Office UH 5070D

Email courtney.kenworthy@rockets.utoledo.edu 

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)

Jake Avendano

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

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

Advisor Peter 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

Area Clinical

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

Advisor Peter Mezo, PhD

Research Interests

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

Vasavi Shanthi

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

Advisor Jon Elhai, PhD

Research Interests

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

Estella Fox

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

Advisor Gregory Meyer, PhD

Research Interests

• Social media addiction
• Problematic phone use
• Emotion regulation

Samantha Mayer

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

Advisor Sarah Francis, PhD

Research Interests

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

Katherine Sheehan

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

Advisor Gregory Meyer, PhD

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.edu 
Degree B.A., Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Miami, 2020 

Research Interests

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

Avleen Walia

Area Clinical
Email avleen.walia@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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

Maria Elena Canini

Area Clinical
Email mariaelena.canini@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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.edu 
Degrees M.A., Cleveland State University, 2021; B.A, University of Iowa, 2015

Research Interests

• Suicide
• Emotion Regulation
• Psychophysiology

Lauren Kramer

Area Clinical
Email lauren.kramer3@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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

Area Clinical
Email ingrid.morales-ramirez@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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

Area Clinical
Email teona.velehorschi@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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

Rachel Bond

Area Clinical
Email rachel.bond@rockets.utoledo.edu 
Degree B.A., Psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2018 

Research Interests

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

Bailey Crittenden

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

Research Interests

• Youth personality vulnerability/risk factors to psychopathology
• Personality development
• Personality assessment 

Raegan Cupp

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

Research Interests

• Mindfulness interventions
• Mindfulness in school-based settings

Elyse Hutcheson

Area Clinical
Email elyse.hutcheson@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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

Area Clinical
Email christopher.jurgens@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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
Email adam.mann2@rockets.utoledo.edu 
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

Area Clinical
Email mackenzie.trevethan@rockets.utoledo.edu 

Degree B.A., Miami University, 2020

Research Interests

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

Noelle Warfford

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

Research Interests

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