Rémi Thériault obtained his B.A. in Psychology and M.Sc. in Psychiatry both at McGill University, Montréal, Québec. He recently started his Ph.D. at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under the guidance of Professor Stéphane Dandeneau, working on implicit social cognition. Over the last couple of years, he has been primarily working with Dr. Amir Raz at the …
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Sinhae Cho
Sinhae Cho is a clinical psychologist specializing in treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders. She is currently completing her postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on exploring biological and psychological processes of emotion regulation, with an overarching goal of informing ways to navigate challenging emotional situations more effectively. She is particularly …
Le-Anh Dinh-Williams
Le-Anh Dinh-Williams did her B.Sc. (Honours) in Psychology at McGill University, followed by an M.Sc. in Psychiatry at the University of Montreal. She is currently in her 4th year of study in a MA/PhD Clinical Psychology program at the University of Toronto (at Scarborough) under the mentorship of Dr. Zindel Segal and Dr. Norman Farb. She is interested …
Kathleen Garrison
Kathleen Garrison is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University. Her research interests are to better understand addiction and to improve treatments. Her research involves clinical trials of addiction treatments and brain imaging studies of the related neurobiological mechanisms. A main focus of her work is the study of mindfulness and the potential to use mindfulness training …
Jose Herrero
Jose Herrero trained in electrophysiology in the UK, under the umbrella of Dr. Alex Thiele, studying the neural and cellular substrates underlying the focus of attention to external objects. Later, he became more interested in the neuronal oscillations underlying attention to inner sensations (e.g., breathing) and meditative processes. Thus, he moved to NYC to work with intracranial human …
Kibby McMahon
Kibby McMahon is currently in her fourth year in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Duke University, supervised by Dr. Zachary Rosenthal. Her primary interests are developing and testing mindfulness based interventions for emotion dysregulation. She is also interested in studying the relationship among mindfulness, emotion dysregulation, and social cognitive processes such as the ability to perceive and understand …
Tarah Raldiris
Tarah Raldiris earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University in 2011. In 2014, she completed her master’s degree in applied psychological research from Penn State-Harrisburg. She entered Virginia Commonwealth University’s social psychology doctoral program in Fall 2015 and defended her PhD in November 2020. Broadly, …
Catherine Spann
Catherine is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington. As a graduate student, Catherine investigated the effects of brief mindfulness training on executive functioning skills among children as well as learning outcomes among university students. Now …
Michelle Walsh
I am a doctoral student in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, specializing in Vajrayana Buddhist practice and contemplative studies. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor integrating clinical psychology and Buddhist and Yogic approaches, I aim to identify and share the benefits and applicability of contemplative practices. After developing a mindfulness and yoga-based wellness …
Darya Zabelina
Dr. Zabelina is a an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. at Northwestern University, and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work focuses on understanding creative cognition, imagination, and other related processes, and how these processes are linked with more traditional subfields of cognitive psychology, such …
