Expertise

Areas of Study

  • Clinical Science

Research Topics

  • Heterogeneity of depression and its implications for treatment
  • Stepped care and personalized medicine for depression
  • Change processes in psychotherapy (e.g., cognitive change, working alliance)
  • History and classification of major depressive disorder
  • Antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar II depression

I am broadly interested in the treatment and phenomenology of depression, including its classification and differentiation from normal sadness. My research has focused primarily on the outcomes and processes of change in depression treatments, especially cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs). An overarching theme informing my work is that the level of heterogeneity in the clinical presentation (e.g., symptoms) and in the prognosis of depression needs to be considered when studying etiology and treatments.

Research  Interests

  • psychotherapy for depression: outcomes, processes, and moderators; intersection of stepped care and personalized medicine for depression; history and classification of major depressive disorder; treatment of bipolar II depression
Communities
Psychology
Degrees
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
MA, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
BA, University of Puerto Rico, 2011