Entering Class Fall of 2025

• Becka is a first-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program. She received her undergraduate degree in Biopsychology and Child Development from Tufts University in 2023. After graduating, Becka worked at McLean Hospital, studying suicide risk detection and the relationship between early life stress and depression. Becka is interested in the role that peer relationships play in the maintenance of anxiety and depression, as well as social protective factors in adolescence and young adulthood.

Connor Gallik, M.S., Ph.D.  

• Masters Thesis: The Stability of Attention Allocation Across Time and Its Relationship to Anxiety
• Dissertation: Depression and Self-Worth in Transgender Youth: Examining the impact of minority stress factors and gender-identity-based differences

• Post-doc Fellowship (2019 – present): Pain Treatment Service Psychology Fellow,
  Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
• Clinical Internship (2018-2019): Child and Adolescent Track, University of Rochester Medical Center
• Dissertation: Can School Nurses Deliver Evidence-based Interventions for Anxious Youth?: Examining Adherence and Competence in a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the CALM Intervention
• Masters Thesis: Effects of Worry Conversations on Anxiety and Affect: An Observational Study of Dyadic Worry using the Actor Partner Interdependence Model

• Post-doc Fellowship (2016-2018): Geriatric/Adult Clinical Neuropsychology Fellow, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA
• Clinical Internship (2015-2016): Clinical Neuropsychology Track, University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, FL
• Dissertation: The influence of cognitive interference and anxiety on working memory and performance validity tests
• M.A. Thesis: Gender differences in co-rumination, co-worry, and internalizing symptoms in late adolescence 

amanda.letard@gmail.com
 
Graduated 2016

• Post-doc Fellowship (2016-2018): Clinician, CBT Westport, Westport, CT
• Clinical Internship (2015-2016): Child Track, Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
• Dissertation: Linking meaning making with autonomy, attachment, and parental influences
• M.A. Thesis: Autonomy and friendship quality as exacerbating and buffering factors of positive and negative indices of adolescent socio-emotional well-being
• Co-Advisor: Julie Wargo Aikins, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and the Department of Clinical and Translational Science (DCaTS), Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute

Graduated 2013

• Current Position: Clinical Psychologist, Anxiety and Mood Disorders Center, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY
• Post-doc Fellowship: Anxiety and Mood Disorders Center, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY
• Clinical Internship (2012-2013): Child, Adolescent, and Family Track, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
• Dissertation: Attention shifts and anxiety changes: a dose-response relationships

Graduated 2012

• Current Position: Clinical Psychologist, Telka Smith, Practice in Psychology, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
• Post-doc Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Inpatient Units, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT
• Clinical Internship (2011-2012): Child Track, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT
• Dissertation: Perceived control as a critical factor in the relationship between family overcontrol, life stressors and anxiety

Graduated 2011

• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
• Post-doc Fellowship/Research Scientist: NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
• Clinical Internship (2010-2011): Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
• Dissertation: A reciprocal model of peer victimization and psychosocial functioning
• M.A. Thesis: Ethnicity as a moderating factor in the effects of peer victimization on adolescent functioning

Graduated 2011

• Current Position: Licensed Clinical Psychologist, The Center, LLC, King of Prussia, PA
• Post-doc Fellowship: Pediatric Psychology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
• Clinical Internship (2010-2011): Department of Behavioral Medicine, Charleston Area Medical Center Health System, Charleston, WV
• Dissertation: Implications of ecological validity for cognitive distortions of depression
• M.A. Thesis: Identifying factors contributing to the emergence of self-disclosure and co-rumination within adolescent dyadic friendship

Graduated 2008

• Post-doc Fellowship: Neuropsychology, Hartford Hospital/Institute of Living, Hartford, CT
• Clinical Internship (2007-2008): Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
• Dissertation: Patterns of neuropsychological test performance in subpopulations of mild traumatic brain injury