Dr. Kendall will be accepting graduate students for the upcoming academic year.
Kyler Lehrbach, M.A.
Kyler (they/them) is a fifth-year graduate student working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. They graduated in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology and Criminal Justice. They previously worked with Dr. Megan Ranney at the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health as a Clinical Research Assistant. Kyler’s research interests include treatment accessibility as well as using predictors to optimize treatment for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders.
Julia Ney, M.A.
Julia (she/her) is a fifth-year graduate student working with Dr. Phillip Kendall. Julia graduated in 2017 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience. She has previously held research positions at UPenn’s Character Lab, Sesame Workshop, NYU Langone’s Anxiety & Complicated Grief Program, and NYU’s Center for Implementation and Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices among States. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Julia is interested in examining the role of peer-to-peer advice given after treatment for anxiety disorders.
Dominique McKnight, M.A.
Dominique McKnight is a fourth-year graduate student working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Dominique graduated in 2017 with a BA in psychology. Following graduation, she worked as a Clinical Research Associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, looking at treatment safety and efficacy. Dominique is interested in self-reported measures of anxiety, treatment, and dissemination.
Stephanie Millot, M.A.
Stephanie Millot is a fourth-year graduate student with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic and with Dr. Stephanie Manasse at Drexel’s Center for Weight, Eating, and Lifestyle Science. Stephanie graduated in 2019 with a B.A. in Psychology. After graduation, Stephanie worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Mount Sinai’s Center of Excellence in Eating Disorders with Dr. Tom Hildebrandt. Stephanie is interested in the treatment of anxiety and eating disorders and the development of these disorders in underrepresented groups.
Marisa Meyer, M.A.
Marisa Meyer, M.A. is a third-year graduate student working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Marisa studied psychology at the University of Michigan, graduating with the Highest Distinction and Highest Honors in May 2020. Following graduation, she completed a two-year postbaccalaureate clinical research fellowship with Dr. Daniel Pine through the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Training Award. Marisa’s research interests include the development and evaluation of evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent anxiety disorders. She is likewise interested in examining predictors and moderators of treatment response to tailor interventions and maximize treatment outcomes.
Sophie Martel
Sophie Martel is a second-year graduate student working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Sophie graduated in 2021 with a BA in psychology from The University of Michigan. Following graduation, she worked as a Postgraduate Research Associate at the Yale Child Study Center in the Anxiety & Mood Disorders Lab researching parent-based treatments to reduce accommodation and a computer-based treatment to reduce social anxiety in adolescents. Sophie is interested in how school-based accommodations can better support students with anxiety disorders, as well as how parent-child and peer relationships impact anxiety in children and adolescents.
Rachel Reynolds
Rachel (she/her) is a first-year graduate student working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Rachel graduated from Harvard University in 2022 with a degree in psychology and previously worked in Dr. John Weisz’s Lab for Youth Mental Health. Following graduation, she completed McLean Hospital’s Post-Baccalaureate Child & Adolescent Clinical Fellowship Program, working at the OCD Institute for Children and Adolescents for two years. Rachel’s research interests include the development, adaptation, and dissemination of evidence-based treatments and their components for childhood anxiety & OCD.
Practicum Students
May Albee, M.A.
May is a third-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program under the advisement of Dr. Deborah Drabick. Before starting at Temple, she obtained a B.S. in Psychological Sciences at the University of Vermont. May worked at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as a research coordinator in the Section on Behavioral Oncology for three years upon graduating from UVM. May’s research interests include modifiable risk factors for externalizing behaviors and the relationship between social skills and ADHD.
Samantha Baker, M.S.
Samantha Baker is a fifth-year Psy.D. student at PCOM, working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Samantha received her B.A. in Psychology from Temple University in 2016 and an M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from PCOM in 2020. Samantha’s prior clinical experience includes a CACREP-accredited internship at Devereux Community Services in Phoenixville, PA. During her internship, Samantha provided evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to children and families ages 4-17 years. She also received specialized training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Samantha’s research experience includes working as a Research Assistant for Dr. Mark Knepley at the CAADC, as well as with Dr. Susan Panichelli-Mindel at a local Philadelphia charter school.
Abbey Friedman, M.A.
Abbey is a fifth-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program under the advisement of Dr. Deborah Drabick. Before her graduate training, she obtained an honors B.S. in Psychology and a double minor in Creative Writing and Administration of Justice. After graduation, Abbey worked as a research assistant through Western Psychiatric Hospital to provide clinical services for children convicted of violent offenses. Abbey’s research interests include violence and delinquency risk factors, as well as other individual and contextual risk factors that act as mediators/moderators of the relationship between developmental factors and conduct problems.
Lindsey Stewart, M.A.
Lindsey Stewart is a fourth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program. Lindsey graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018 with a B.S. in Psychology and a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience. After graduating, she worked as a research assistant in the Computational Neuroimaging and Connected Technologies Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lindsey is broadly interested in identifying risk factors for the development of internalizing disorders and factors that contribute to perseverative cognition.
Sami Sorid, M.A.
Sami is a third-year graduate student in the clinical psychology PhD program. She graduated from The College of William & Mary in 2022, with an honors B.S. in Psychological Sciences and a minor in Management and Organizational Leadership. Sami previously held research assistantships at the CAADC, UPenn’s Character Lab, and Dr. Adrian Bravo’s lab at William & Mary. For her research, she is interested in examining the impact of feedback-informed care on treatment progress over time.