We're off to a new school year and want to welcome the incoming cohort of students to the Counseling Psychology program, and specifically our newest member of the LPS - Katie Axford! We're so excited to have you on the team. Katy has joined the lab after completing her Master's Degree. She's interested in researching therapy processes and how they relate to outcomes. She also enjoys being outside, and will fit right in to Utah! Welcome! 

The LPS is moving along with our new data collection project! Thanks to all our collaborators and research assistants, we are continuing to meet our milestones to fulfill the R01 grant. Great work Kritzia, Derek, and Keith for all your hard work on a Friday night!

The LPS and friends made it out to a Salt Lake Bees game on Friday evening. The Bees lost to Fresno, but we still had a great time with good friends, food, and fireworks! 

We want to extend a warm LPS welcome to Keith Gunnerson, third year doctoral student, who has just joined the lab. Keith will be working with the team on providing automated feedback to therapists, as well as his own research. Keith is broadly interested in how religiosity integrates into psychotherapy process. We're excited to have you on board!

Oh how the time flies! We are already on the first day of the Fall 2017 semester, just in time to watch the solar eclipse (faculty, students, and friends pictured right). Our second years--Keith, Derek, and Kritzia--have completed their preliminary exams, we're registered for classes, and the R01 and PCORI grants continue to be up and running! We're looking forward to the excitement and challenges that this year will bring. 

 Congratulations to Halley Brown (pictured right), an LPS lab mate, as well as our fellow CCP colleagues for graduating! Best of luck on future endeavors and we are lucky to have been able to work and learn from you all.

Great work Tina and Kritzia for your persistence, motivation, and contributions to the Counseling Psychology research community! Tina is continuing to work with advanced statistical methods to describe psychotherapy process, specifically emotion regulation. Kritzia is working on modeling mental health disparities among racial/ethnic minority population. Together, they have worked on developing a tool for providing computer generated feedback to therapists. Keep up the hard work you two!

Pictured right, Melissa Shreve, Kritzia, Tina, Natalie Noel, and Halleh Hashtpari - all winners and honorable mentions of CP awards on Monday night. 

Thank you so much to our USC collaborators for hosing us in your beautiful city. Our brainstorming and planning included good food and some time at the beach! Great to see everyone to keep the project rolling. 
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​(Santa Monica Beach pictured right, Collaborator's dinner pictured below)