Lily Pankratz
Lab Manager; M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Lily’s research interests include mental health service use, trauma, and aging. Lily is involved in several projects in the lab including perinatal health service use and moral injury in long-term care workers during COVID-19.
Lily Pankratz
Lab Manager; M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Sarah Petty
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 4th Year
Sarah’s research interests include close relationships, anxiety, attachment, and workplace accommodations for mental health. Sarah's dissertation explores perinatal anxiety and how women seek help during the experience of perinatal anxiety.
Sarah Petty
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 4th Year
Stephanie Dudok
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 3rd Year
Stephanie's research interests include mental health literacy, knowledge translation, and exercise-adjuncts in psychological treatment. Stephanie's dissertation examines systemic influences that may help or hinder delivery of effective mental health and substance use services.
Stephanie Dudok
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 3rd Year
Dylan Davidson
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Dylan's research interests include improving public mental health literacy and psychotherapy outcomes. Dylan's dissertation is focused on the development of an Internet resource for educating parents about child mental health problems and treatment.
Dylan Davidson
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Jordana Sommer
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Jordana's research interests include psychological correlates of adverse health events, and comorbidity between anxiety and trauma-related disorders with physical health conditions. Jordana's dissertation examines preoperative distress among cancer surgery patients, and evaluates a preoperative virtual reality intervention.
Jordana Sommer
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Laura Ceccarelli
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Laura's research interests include mental health in sport and health contexts. Laura's dissertation examines student-athletes' knowledge and experiences of mental health, and coaches' perspectives on resources and challenges managing mental health in sport.
Laura Ceccarelli
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Sharon Chou
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Sharon's research interests include perinatal mental health, trauma, and intervention development and evaluation. Her doctoral dissertation is focused on virtual group-based intervention development for perinatal (pregnancy to 12 months postpartum) women with histories of trauma. Her clinical areas of interest include anxiety-related disorders and trauma-related disorders.
Sharon Chou
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Teaghan Pryor
M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Teaghan’s research interests include knowledge translation and mental health information evaluation. Teaghan’s thesis evaluates an online Late-Life Depression Decision Aid created by our lab in a randomized controlled trial.
Teaghan Pryor
M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year
Shayna Pierce
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Shayna’s previous work has focused on the information needs of women in the perinatal period. She is interested in researching the unmet mental health support needs of women experiencing various health concerns in the perinatal period, including perinatal mental health concerns, prior traumatic birth experiences, infertility, and endometriosis. Shayna’s long-term goal in the Clinical Psychology Program is to use her research to inform the development of medical practice guidelines for women accessing health services during the perinatal period. When not doing school-related activities, Shayna enjoys spending time travelling, hiking, or camping with friends.
Shayna Pierce
Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Inga Christianson
M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Inga's research interests including mental health literacy and aging. She try to live my life with curiosity. From a young age, her parents and older brother always challenged her to consider the perspectives of those around her and to be open-minded when solving problems. This curious mindset has been helpful in her studies and research thus far. In Inga's free time, she enjoys trying local restaurants and exercising!
Inga Christianson
M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 1st Year
Madison Hardman
B.Sc. (Hons.) Psychology
Madison's research interests include perinatal mental health, improving mental health literacy, and evaluating mental health services within Indigenous communities. Madison’s current research focuses on assessing the quality of information found on perinatal depression websites.
Madison Hardman
B.Sc. (Hons.) Psychology
Cassidy Ilchena
B.Sc. (Hons.), Psychology, 3rd Year
Cass’ research interests include trauma, psychopathology, and mental health literacy. They are a volunteer in the Health Information Exchange Lab and a Research Assistant for a project looking at athlete mental health.
Cassidy Ilchena
B.Sc. (Hons.), Psychology, 3rd Year
Bruna Maciel
B.Sc, Psychology, 4th Year
Bruna is a recipient of the Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Award. This summer, she will explore how women’s coping mechanisms for pregnancy during COVID-19 are now impacting their postpartum experience. Bruna is especially interested in the intersection of Health Psychology and Public Policy Development.
Bruna Maciel
B.Sc, Psychology, 4th Year
Lindsay Berard
PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 3rd year
Lindsay’s research interests involve mental health service use, as well as developing and evaluating non-traditional mental health services. She is a research assistant on the LTC workshops project, offering support for intervention development and evaluation.
Lindsay Berard
PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology, 3rd year
Barbie Jain
B.A. (Hons) Psychology
Barbie Jain is a student from India who recently graduated with Honours in Psychology at the University of Manitoba. She completed her thesis work in examining acute stress responses and buffering effects using remote measures and platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic under the supervision of Dr. Ryan Giuliano. Her long-term research interests include studying racialized and marginalized populations in the community in order to reduce barriers they face and improve accessibility to mental health services and resources.
Barbie Jain
B.A. (Hons) Psychology
Kailey Penner
B.A. (Hons) Psychology
Kailey is currently involved in supporting the project on the experiences of perinatal people waitlisted for an RCT trial. She has a passion for researching perinatal mental health and her goal is to become a clinical psychologist.
Kailey Penner
B.A. (Hons) Psychology