Dr. Kendall will be accepting graduate students for the upcoming academic year.
Julia Ney, M.A.
Julia (she/her) is a sixth-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 fifth-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 fifth-year graduate student with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. 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 fourth-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 third-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 second-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.
Lauren Browning
Lauren is a first-year graduate student working with Dr. Philip Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from West Virginia University in 2022 and previously held research positions in the WVU PCIT Lab and at the FIU Summer Treatment Program. Following graduation, she worked as a Research Program Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Center for OCD, Anxiety, & Related Disorders in Children (COACH), where she studied misophonia in youth and coordinated a clinical trial of a remote-delivered intervention for tic disorders. Lauren’s research interests are in the development and evaluation of interventions for youth with misophonia and anxiety-related disorders. She is likewise interested in the use of personalized treatment approaches, multi-method assessment, and the integration of family and technology in care.
Practicum Students
May Albee, M.A.
May is a fourth-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.
Sami Sorid, M.A.
Sami is a fourth-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.
Daniel Zweben
Danny is a PhD student in the Social Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory with Dr. Johanna Jarcho and in the CAADC. His research investigates the social, cognitive and neural mechanisms that contribute to the onset and maintenance of social anxiety in children and adolescents. He is particularly interested in how cognitive processes such as memory distortions, prediction errors, and misperceptions of others’ evaluations interact with neural functioning and structural differences to shape developmental trajectories of social anxiety. Outside of research, Danny enjoys dancing, reading, and playing basketball.