Alumni

Cathryn Boga (she/her/hers)
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Cathryn graduated from the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences and is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Her current research interests include the impacts of race/ethnicity on mental health treatment experiences and outcomes.

Lang Duong, BS (she/her/hers)
Clinical Research Coordinator

Lang Duong graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology. She completed an independent research project on the impact of acculturative strategies on Asian adolescents' ethnic identity and psychosocial well-being. She decided to join the Center for Psychotherapy Research because of the parallelism between the mission of the center and her research interests, which includes the creation of culturally-sensitive psychotherapies and the democratization of psychological sciences. She is currently studying at the University of Miami as a Child Clinical Psychology PhD student under Dr. Amanda Jensen-Doss' advisory.

Elly Goldstein, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator

Elly graduated from Johns Hopkins University in December of 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish. As an undergraduate, she did research on the quality of mental health care in Argentine prisons and worked with the undocumented community in Baltimore to improve access to social resources. She is now conducting research on sleep and depression in the Sleep Neurobiology and Psychopathology Lab under Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied and eventually plans to pursue a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology.

Catherine King, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator

Catherine joined the Center for Psychotherapy Research as a research coordinator in June 2019 after receiving her B.A. in Psychology from Vassar College. During her time at Vassar, she completed an individual research project on the effects of self-reinforcement on interpersonal relationships following social exclusion. She also served as a lab intern for Vassar’s psychology department during the 2018-2019 school year. She is now pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Ohio State University under Dr. Dan Struck.

Blair Burgin, MA (she/her/hers)
Diagnostician

Blair Burgin is a doctoral student in La Salle University's Psy.D. program with a concentration in clinical child and family psychology. Her professional goals include working with children, adolescents, and families by providing treatment for anxiety and anxiety-related disorders using empirically supported treatments in a range of settings. 

Rachel Canella, MS (she/her/hers)
Diagnostician

Rachel Canella is a doctoral student in La Salle University’s Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program and previously graduated from Loyola University Maryland’s Accelerated B.A./M.S. Program in Clinical Psychology. Clinically, Rachel completed various externships at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia providing evidence-based psychotherapy, consultation, and neuropsychological assessments to pediatric patients with medical complexities. She is passionate about delivering high-quality psychological services to underserved, marginalized, and vulnerable populations. Rachel’s research interests include the development of novel tools to enhance the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments for youth within community mental health settings.

Caroline Diehl, PhD (she/her/hers)
Clinical Research Coordinator

Caroline was a Clinical Research Coordinator at CPR from 2015-2017 after graduating from Yale with a B.S. in Psychology. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2023 from UCLA, where she conducted research on neural mechanisms of cognitive impairment and recovery in psychosis. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in health services research at the West Los Angeles VA, where her research focuses on implementation of mental health and social services for unhoused Veterans, as well as strategies for decreasing carceral system contact among individuals with serious mental illness.

Aggie Rieger, M.S. (she/her/hers)
Clinical Research Coordinator

Aggie Rieger is a PhD student in clinical-community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studies interpersonal violence, with an emphasis on understanding prevention implementation/process, as well as the settings/social ecology in which this abuse occurs. Her clinical work emphasizes trauma therapy and healthy relationships education with neurodiverse adolescents. While part of the CPR team, she helped coordinate an eclectic portfolio of research studies, for example including research on behavioral activation in the community mental health setting, provider use of feedback systems, and ways in which social media posts might be utilized to detect mental health concerns. She is grateful for her time at CPR because Drs. Crits-Christoph and Connolly Gibbons provided rich opportunities to explore grant writing, manuscript preparation, community mental health implementation, and provider training! CPR’s hallmarks of (A) cultivating a range of active projects and (B) engaging with practice-based providers are values she carries forward in her work today.

Kelli Scott, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Clinical Research Coordinator

Kelli Scott received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Indiana University in 2018. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in substance use intervention and implementation science at Brown University and is now an Assistant Professor at the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Scott has served as Principal or Co-Investigator on an array of NIH and SAMHSA funded projects focused on enhancing the implementation of evidence-based practices in behavioral health and substance use treatment settings. Her work specifically focuses on using innovative methods to co-design and implement measurement-based care to enhance the quality of opioid use disorder treatment with community partners in New England, Chicagoland, and Pennsylvania. 

Averi Gaines, M.S. (she/her/hers)
Clinical Research Coordinator

Averi Gaines joined the Center for Psychotherapy Research in 2017 after graduating from Haverford College with a BA in Psychology. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under Dr. Michael Constantino, where she conducts research on patient, therapist, dyadic, and contextual factors that influence psychotherapy processes and outcomes; mental health care disparities; measurement-based care; and psychotherapy integration.