She has gained extensive supervised clinical experience across various settings. From 2023 to 2024, she served as a Clinical Psychology Resident at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center at OUHealth in Oklahoma City, OK, dedicating 24 hours per week to the Child Study Center. In this outpatient training clinic, she provided evidence-based parenting training programs and therapy services for children and families, including those involved with the child welfare system. Her responsibilities included administering cognitive and behavioral assessments, composing comprehensive developmental reports, conducting psychodiagnostic assessments, and developing treatment plans. She provided behavioral management services using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), trauma-based services with Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and anxiety treatments, including Selective Mutism interventions. Additionally, she monitored client treatment progress, maintained weekly documentation, and used electronic health records under the supervision of licensed psychologists, including Drs. Elizabeth Bard, Tabitha Fleming, Beverly Funderburk, Erin Taylor, and Ashley Galsky.
Simultaneously, from 2023 to 2024, she worked 12 hours per week as a Clinical Psychology Resident at Stevenson Cancer Center, where she provided mental health counseling for adults with cancer within an interdisciplinary healthcare setting. She conducted biopsychosocial assessments to determine the need for brief psychotherapy interventions following cancer diagnoses, created treatment plans, and delivered cognitive-behavioral treatments while assessing symptom changes over time. She also completed weekly documentation using an electronic health record system under the supervision of Drs. Rachel Funk-Lawler and Blake Hilton.
From 2020 to 2023, she was a Graduate Student Therapist at the Psychological Services Center in Memphis, TN, a university-based outpatient training clinic serving a diverse community population. She administered psychological and behavioral assessments, formulated cases, created treatment plans, and conducted psychotherapy using empirically supported treatments. Additionally, she regularly monitored client progress through validated assessments, conducted risk assessments, and maintained comprehensive documentation, including session notes and closing reports, under the supervision of licensed psychologists Drs. Kristoffer S. Berlin, Audrey Townsel, and Ryan Farmer.
During the 2021-2022 academic year, she worked 20 hours per week as a Graduate Clinician at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Center for Developmental Disabilities in Memphis, TN. In this interdisciplinary setting, she conducted diagnostic intake interviews, administered psychometric scales, and performed cognitive and socio-emotional testing for children suspected of having neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her work informed differential diagnoses, and she provided Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services through the ABA for Families program. She also composed comprehensive reports, documented treatment plans, and tracked and graphed session data, supervised by Drs. Philip Norfolk, Alexandra Vohs, Bruce Keisling, and Colby Taylor.
In the summer of 2021, she volunteered as a Graduate Psychometrician at Irby Psychological Services in Southaven, MS, where she administered psychological, cognitive, and behavioral assessments for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and various mental health diagnoses. She also composed integrated psychological reports, conducted intake assessments with primary caregivers, and participated in family feedback sessions to review the final reports under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Irby.
Between 2017 and 2019, and again from 2022 to 2023, she served as a Group Intervention Leader at the University of Memphis, facilitating a five-week intervention program for pregnant women who had recently experienced intimate partner violence. She led weekly two-hour group intervention sessions covering cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, dialectical-behavioral, and motivational interviewing strategies, along with psychoeducation on violence, pregnancy, and parenting. This work was supervised by Drs. Kathryn H. Howell and Laura Miller-Graff.
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