Meet the Mood and Behaviors Lab

Graduate Students

Hae-Joon Kim, Graduate Student

Hae-Joon Kim, MA
Hae-Joon is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology currently on internship at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center. She has completed clinical externships at Fordham Counseling and Psychological Services and Westchester Jewish Community Services. Her research interests include affective and cognitive risk and protective factors for suicide and non-suicidal self-injury. She is also interested in cultural influences on suicide risk. Her master’s thesis is entitled "The Role of Sociotropy and Interpersonal Stress on Suicide."

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Ana Rabasco (she/her), MA
Ana (she/her) a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology currently on internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. Her research interests include risk factors and interventions for suicide and non-suicidal self-injury in high-risk populations. She is also interested in longitudinal research design, including the use of ecological momentary assessment methodology, to better understand fluctuations in risk for suicide. Ana is currently a clinical extern at Bronx Psychiatric Center, where she conducts group and individual therapy with individuals who have severe and persistent mental illness. She has previously completed externships at Westchester Jewish Community Services and New York Presbyterian Hospital – Personality Disorders Unit.

Joshua DeSon

Joshua DeSon, BA
Josh (they/them) is a fourth-year doctoral student in the clinical psychological program. Their research interests include non-suicidal self injury, suicidal thoughts/behaviors, LGBTQIA+ microaggressions, and resilience factors in sexual and gender minority youth and adolescents. Prior projects of theirs explore risk and resilience factors for NSSI in marginalized populations, gender role conflict and internalized sexual stigma in sexual minority men, and clinical outcomes of LGBTQIA+ microaggressions.

Bri Pastro

Bri Pastro, BS
Bri (she/her) is a second-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program. Bri moved to New York from Boston, where she attended Tufts University and then worked as a research assistant in a lab studying adolescent depression at McLean Hospital. Bri is interested in research related to suicide and self-injury in teenagers and young adults, particularly as these experiences relate to technology and social media. Bri is also interested in treatment development with teenagers and hopes to translate her research into concrete ways to help individuals who are struggling with SITBs. Bri is currently completing her thesis project investigating psychological effects of using online content related to SITBs. Bri is currently a clinical extern at Fordham Counseling & Psychological Services at the Lincoln Center campus.

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

  • Heather Schatten, PhD: Assistant Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Butler Hospital
  • Blair Morris, PhD: Pediatric Psychologist, Montefiore Medical Center
  • Emily Brackman, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow, Steven A. Cohen Military Family Center at NYU Langone
  • Caroline Holman, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow, Post-Deployment and Readjustment Program and Trauma Recovery Services at the Providence VAMC
  • Abigail Wren, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy & Research
  • Kelsey Luks, M.S. 
  • Justyna Jurska, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
  • Vincent Corcoran, PhD: Assistant Professor, Russell Sage College