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My pursuit of clinical science has been deeply personal.
I was born and raised in Connecticut, and frankly, my heart will always be on the East Coast. When I was nine, my family moved to Las Vegas, where I spent my middle and high school years. During that time, I began struggling with my mental health. My obsessive-compulsive tendencies intensified, and as stress naturally increased, I found it significantly harder to regulate my emotions. I eventually began seeing a psychologist, where I hoped treatment would help me through this difficult period. To my surprise, treatment not only did that, but also completely changed what I wanted to do with my life.
My psychologist taught me how to make sense of my experiences that, until then, had been really difficult to understand (let alone manage). With time and support, however, I learned to cope with these internal stressors more effectively, helping me get back on my feet at such a pivotal moment in my life.
I also became immensely curious about why her approach helped me.
Throughout college, research has afforded me the tools required to pursue this question, while also raising others along the way. In fact, my interests have grown in directions I would've never expected: I've studied emotion regulation and psychological measurement, built serious games, worked in institutional research, taught and mentored students, and become involved in projects spanning public scholarship to student leadership. You'll find the specifics scattered throughout this website; overall, however, I've been pulled in many different directions, and each time, I've tried to do the work needed to grow into a better researcher, colleague, and student.
Not surprisingly, my long-term goal is to become a clinical psychologist and professor, where I can continue to study questions about emotion regulation, psychopathological classification, and psychological intervention. Graduate school is the next step toward this goal, and I'm so excited to see where it takes me!
Above all, though, I'm grateful that such a difficult period in my life gave me a passion that I would not trade for the world.
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