“The experiences I had at Suffolk allowed me to garner both the broad and in-depth clinical training necessary to graduate as a confident clinical psychologist. I found all of my mentors at Suffolk to be very supportive and flexible in allowing students to find their strengths and excel on different paths. Currently, I teach undergraduate classes in the Health & Illness track in the psychology department at Smith College. I also direct the Behavioral Self-Injury Lab (BASIL) on campus, where we focus on understanding correlates and predictors for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.”
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Stephanie Jarvi Steele
PhD in Clinical Psychology Class of 2017
“At Suffolk, I co-founded the Graduate Students of Color Collaborative. I gained leadership experience and was able to foster community with other up-and-coming BIPOC psychologists! My Suffolk degree has been invaluable because I received such excellent training. I was able to get licensed quickly because of all of the opportunities I was afforded during my time in the program, and I feel extremely confident in my skills and abilities as a mental health provider and researcher. Importantly, I’m able to serve minoritized communities because I was able to train in so many diverse settings with a variety of clients.”
Stephanie Jarvi Steele
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Alexandria's experience
PhD in Clinical Psychology
Class of 2023
Alexandria Miller
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Alysha's experience
PhD in Clinical Psychology
Class of 2013
Alysha Thompson
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Ryan's experience
PhD in Clinical Psychology
Ryan Mace
Class of 2017, PhD in Clinical Psychology
“At Suffolk, I co-founded the Graduate Students of Color Collaborative. I gained leadership experience and was able to foster community with other up-and-coming BIPOC psychologists! My Suffolk degree has been invaluable because I received such excellent training. I was able to get licensed quickly because of all of the opportunities I was afforded during my time in the program, and I feel extremely confident in my skills and abilities as a mental health provider and researcher. Importantly, I’m able to serve minoritized communities because I was able to train in so many diverse settings with a variety of clients.”
Alexandria Miller
Alysha Thompson
Ryan Mace
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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mary Beth Medvide, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mary Beth Medvide, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mary Beth Medvide, PhD
Assistant Professor Medvide’s research focuses on the organizational, social, and relational factors that foster hope in young people as they set goals in high school and plan their academic and vocational futures. She utilizes qualitative methodologies to explore the experiences of marginalized youth who face structural and systemic barriers to academic attainment in high school and decent work. She’s also interested in work-based learning programs and the potential benefits to introduce young people to the world of work, form mentoring relationships, and develop skills that will help them achieve their vocational goals.
Assistant Professor Medvide’s research focuses on the organizational, social, and relational factors that foster hope in young people as they set goals in high school and plan their academic and vocational futures. She utilizes qualitative methodologies to explore the experiences of marginalized youth who face structural and systemic barriers to academic attainment in high school and decent work. She’s also interested in work-based learning programs and the potential benefits to introduce young people to the world of work, form mentoring relationships, and develop skills that will help them achieve their vocational goals.
Professor Matt Perlman's work focuses on the effective training of therapists and helping professionals through the integration of common factors and evidence-based treatment approaches. He has worked extensively as a clinical supervisor and educator for trainees and early career professionals in psychology, social work, and counseling. As a researcher, Dr. Perlman's work has touched on a range of practice-focused topics including therapist effects, feedback-informed treatment, and improving therapy process/outcomes. He incorporates these topics in projects within his main research interest: enhancing therapist training through deliberate practice methods.
Mary Beth Medvide, PhD
David Shumaker, PhD
Class of 2023, PhD in Clinical Psychology
“I was specifically interested in Suffolk because of the child psychology track within the program. This program prepared me well for a future career working with children and adolescents as a psychologist. I currently oversee the programming and therapy provided to children and adolescents admitted for acute and severe mental illness to the inpatient psychiatry unit of Seattle Children’s Hospital. In this role, I oversee our therapists, case managers, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, art therapists, and music therapists.”
Class of 2013, PhD in Clinical Psychology
“My time in Dr. Gansler’s Brain Image Analysis Laboratory (now the Clinical Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory) taught me how to lead collaborative research teams. The lab specializes in integrating multiple types of data (e.g., neuropsychological, neuroimaging, familial, and genetics) to understand brain structure and function. We studied a range of populations such as those with alcoholism, depression, dementia, serious mental illness, and ADHD. Suffolk provided a steppingstone to hospitals such as Massachusetts General Hospital and VA Boston, which were invaluable in building my own professional network. The relationships with my cohort and the brain health research that I began with my lab mates remain central to my work today.”
Class of 2020, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Stephanie Jarvi Steele
Class of 2017, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Class of 2013, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Alysha Thompson
“The experiences I had at Suffolk allowed me to garner both the broad and in-depth clinical training necessary to graduate as a confident clinical psychologist. I found all of my mentors at Suffolk to be very supportive and flexible in allowing students to find their strengths and excel on different paths. Currently, I teach undergraduate classes in the Health & Illness track in the psychology department at Smith College. I also direct the Behavioral Self-Injury Lab (BASIL) on campus, where we focus on understanding correlates and predictors for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.”
Class of 2020, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Ryan Mace
“My time in Dr. Gansler’s Brain Image Analysis Laboratory (now the Clinical Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory) taught me how to lead collaborative research teams. The lab specializes in integrating multiple types of data (e.g., neuropsychological, neuroimaging, familial, and genetics) to understand brain structure and function. We studied a range of populations such as those with alcoholism, depression, dementia, serious mental illness, and ADHD. Suffolk provided a steppingstone to hospitals such as Massachusetts General Hospital and VA Boston, which were invaluable in building my own professional network. The relationships with my cohort and the brain health research that I began with my lab mates remain central to my work today.”
Class of 2017, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Stephanie Jarvi Steele
Class of 2023, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Alexandria Miller
Class of 2013, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Alysha Thompson
Class of 2020, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Ryan Mace
