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Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Texas Tech University

My research is focused on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide. I am interested in identifying factors that increase risk for these problems across people, as well as intra-individual factors that contribute to short-term changes in self-harm risk in daily life.

Some of the questions I'm working to answer are:​​

Why do some people engage in NSSI and then stop, while others continue?

Why do some people act on suicidal thoughts, while others do not?

Why, and for whom, does NSSI seem to confer increased risk of suicide?

Who is most likely to benefit from psychological treatment for these problems, and who is at highest risk of poor outcomes?

When is an at-risk person most likely to think about NSSI or suicide in their daily life?

What thoughts, experiences, and emotions occur in the minutes to hours leading up to an episode of NSSI or suicidal behavior?

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Texas Tech University

Education

  • 2021 
    Texas, Licensed Psychologist
  • 2019 
    National Register, Health Service Psychologist
  • 2019 
    Pennsylvania, Licensed Psychologist

Publications

  • 2022
    Psychologists with lived experience of non-suicidal self-injury: Priorities, obstacles, and recommendations for inclusion, Psychological Services
  • 2022
    Only human: Mental health difficulties among clinical, counseling, and school psychology faculty and trainees, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • 2022
    Leveraging the strengths of psychologists with lived experience of psychopathology, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • 2021
    Prospective and concurrent affective dynamics in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: An examination in young adult women, Behavior Therapy
  • 2020
    Affective dynamics across internalizing and externalizing dimensions of psychopathology, Clinical Psychological Science
  • 2020
    Adolescent suicide risk and experiences of dissociation in daily life, Psychiatry Research
  • 2020
    Reciprocal influences of parent and adolescent borderline personality symptoms over 3 years, Journal of Personality Disorders
  • 2019
    I want you to want me: Interpersonal stress and affective experiences as within-person predictors of self-injurious thoughts and urges in daily life, Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
  • 2019
    The Multidimensional Emotion Questionnaire (MEQ): Rationale and Initial Psychometric Properties, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • 2019
    Parent and peer relationships as longitudinal predictors of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury onset, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • 2018
    Understanding the social context of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury, Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • 2018
    From ideation to action: Recent advances in understanding suicide capability, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • 2018
    Characterizing gender differences in nonsuicidal self-injury: Evidence from a large clinical sample of adolescents and adults, Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • 2017
    Descriptive characteristics and initial psychometric properties of the Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder Scale, Archives of Suicide Research
  • 2016
    Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-18) in five samples, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • 2016
    Characterizing positive and negative emotional experiences in young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms, Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • 2016
    Functions of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI): Cross-sectional associations with NSSI duration and longitudinal changes over time and following treatment, Psychiatry Research
  • 2015
    Characteristics of non-suicidal self-injury associated with suicidal ideation: Evidence from a clinical sample of youth, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • 2014
    Nonsuicidal self-injury: What we know, and what we need to know, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • 2014
    Correlates of suicide attempts among self-injurers: A meta-analysis, Clinical Psychology Review
  • 2014
    Daily emotion in non-suicidal self-injury, Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • 2012
    Is non-suicidal self-injury an “addiction”? A comparison of craving in substance use and non-suicidal self-injury, Psychiatry Research
  • 2011
    Quality of life and impulsivity in bipolar disorder, Bipolar Disorders

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    Dynamic Regulatory Processes in the Transition from Suicidal Ideation to Action: The Roles of Cognitive Control, Emotion-Related Impulsivity, and Sleep in the Context of Negative Affective Experiences
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    National Institute of Mental Health