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Mentor Spotlights
The ABCT Academic Training and Education Standards committee annually solicits nominations for the “Spotlight on a Mentor” recognition to highlight the diversity of excellent mentors within the membership ranks of ABCT. Its goal is to spotlight promising early-career and well-established mentors across all levels of academic rank, areas of specialization, and types of institution.
We hope that you will consider nominating a mentor who has positively impacted you and provided exceptional guidance and dedication. Nominations from multiple mentees are encouraged. We are especially seeking nominations for mentors from underrepresented groups.
To submit a nomination, please complete the attached nomination form and email it to [email protected] by June 27, 2025.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
Jonathan Abramowitz - Jonathan Abramowitz is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Clinic at the University of North Carolina
Anu Asnaani - Dr. Asnaani is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who currently is the Principal Investigator of the Treatment Mechanisms, Community Empowerment, and Technology Innovations (TCT) laboratory and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT.
Donald Baucom - Dr. Baucom is the Richard Simpson Distinguished Professor of Psychology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Rinad S. Beidas - Dr. Rinad S. Beidas is Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 
Amy Brausch - Amy Brausch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Western Kentucky University where she has been a faculty member since 2011.
Jennifer Cheavens - Jennifer Cheavens is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at the Ohio State University (OSU).
Mark S. Chen - Mark S. Chen (he/him/his) is a Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Psychology at Yale University.
Elise Clerkin - Elise Clerkin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Miami University.
Norman Cotterell - Dr. Cotterell has served as a protocol therapist on a variety of large-scale psychotherapy outcome studies, including drug abuse, panic disorder, and the prevention of depression.
David Dilillo - Dr. DiLillo is Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where he has been a faculty member since 2000. 
Omid V. Ebrahimi - Omid V. Ebrahimi is a second year double-degree Ph.D. student at the University of Oslo, parallelly engaged in a clinical specialization at Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital. 
Stacy Frazier - Stacy Frazier was Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Clinical Science Program in Child and Adolescent Psychology, Department of Psychology, Florida International University.
Robert Friedberg - Robert D. Friedberg, Ph.D., ABPP is Professor and Head of the Child Emphasis Area at Palo Alto University. 
Kristin Hawley - Dr. Kristin Hawley is a clinical psychologist, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health, and associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri.
Maria A. Kalantzis - Maria A. Kalantzis (she/her) is a 5th year PhD candidate in clinical psychology with a health psychology specialization at Bowling Green State University. 
Betsy Kennard - Dr. Kennard is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Health, Dallas.
Anna Lau - Dr. Lau’s translational research on risk and protective factors for youth in immigrant families and her identification of racial disparities in youth mental health services have informed her efforts to study the implementation of evidence-based practices in community settings
Kelsie H. Okamura - Dr. Okamura (she/her) is an Implementation Researcher at the Baker Center for Children and Families, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and a licensed psychologist. Dr. Okamura serves on the training, consultation, and distance learning development teams at PracticeWise, LLC. 
Clarissa Ong - Dr. Clarissa Ong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville. 
Sue Orsillo - Sue Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer she developed an acceptance-based behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety and comorbid disorders, examined its efficacy, and identified mediators of change in a series of studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health
Alayna Park - Dr. Alayna Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Palo Alto University and Director of the ADDRESS Mental Health Lab.
Jennifer Read - Dr. Jennifer Read is a Professor of Psychology, and the Director of Clinical Training at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY.
Erin E. Reilly - Erin E. Reilly is Director of the Lab for Research on Eating and Anxiety Disorders (READ) at Hofstra University.
Richard T. Liu - Richard T. Liu provides research mentorship to high school students, research assistants, medical students, residents, post-doctoral fellows, junior faculty, and psychology trainees through the clinical psychology internship program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Shireen Rizvi - Shireen Rizvi, PhD, ABPP, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology 
Lizabeth Roemer - Dr. Lizabeth Roemer is Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she has been a faculty member since 1996.
Michelle Roley-Roberts - Michelle Roley-Roberts, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical child and adolescent psychologist in the Psychology Department at West Virginia University. 
Genelle Sawyer - Dr. Genelle Sawyer is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychology: Clinical-Counseling MA program at The Citadel.
Crystal Schiller - Dr. Crystal Schiller is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UNC Chapel Hill. She is Director of the UNC Psychology Internship Program. 
Norman Schmidt - Norman B. (Brad) Schmidt, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor in the department of Psychology at the Florida State University.
Gregory Stuart - Dr. Gregory Stuart is an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and he is the Director of Family Violence Research at Butler Hospital.
Michael P. Twohig - Dr. Twohig is a psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at Utah State University, where he co-runs the ACT Research Group. 
Shirley B. Wang - Shirley Wang conducts computational clinical science research to advance our understanding of why people engage in behaviors that are harmful to themselves, including eating disorder behaviors, nonsuicidal self-injury, and suicide.