Graduate Students

Tyler Eschenwecker is a PhD student in clinical psychology who is interested in understanding maintaining factors of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He is particularly interested in understanding how compulsion goals impact the way people perform their compulsions.

Van Bui is a third year PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Waterloo. She is currently interested in understanding how excessive reassurance-seeking impacts those with social anxiety.

Aliya McNeil is a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Waterloo. Aliya is interested in understanding how self-conscious emotions, such as shame, are related to intrusive thoughts and safety behaviours. She is also examining the relationship between positive and negative core beliefs, and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom severity. 

Erin completed her BSc (Honours) in Psychology and Neuroscience at Laurier in 2022. She's currently a first-year M.A. student in clinical psychology. Erin is broadly interested in identifying predictors of treatment response in individuals with OCD. 

Taylor Crawford is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology who is interested in understanding the quality and function of safety behaviours in generalized anxiety disorder. She is currently investigating the similarities and differences in reassurance seeking across generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Sophia Kudryk is a PhD student in clinical psychology. She is broadly interested in investigating autobiographical memory in socially anxious individuals.

Jolie Ho is a PhD student in clinical psychology whose research focuses on potential ways for socially anxious individuals to seek close connections with others and their experiences of social reward. Her MA research examined social anxiety in the context of COVID-19, particularly how the interpersonal experiences of socially anxious individuals during the pandemic were influenced by symptom impairment and COVID-related stressors.

Lucia Di Censo is a master's student in clinical psychology. She is interested in exploring the outcomes of positive autobiographical memory retrieval, with a particular focus on nostalgic and self-defining memories, for individuals with social anxiety and chronic loneliness. Older adults are a specific population of interest for Lucia and she hopes to investigate how autobiographical memory retrieval strategies can be optimized to best reduce loneliness in this age group.

Jennifer Fudge is a second year M.A. Student in clinical psychology. Broadly, she studies the role of schemas and autobiographical memory in social anxiety disorder. Currently, she is interested in exploring whether sleep quality supports memory-based interventions for updating maladaptive schemas in socially anxious individuals.