Members
Lisa A. Goodman, PhD
Dr. Goodman is a clinical-community psychologist and Professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Developmental Psychology at Boston College. Her research explores the ways that systems designed to support intimate partner violence survivors both promote safety and healing and create new challenges for struggling families. Dr. Goodman has consulted to multiple local and national organizations, including the National Latin@ Network, The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, and the American Civil Liberties Union; and she has conducted domestic violence program evaluation trainings in communities across the country. Dr. Goodman is co-founder of the Domestic Violence Program Evaluation and Research Collaborative. She has received several national awards for her teaching, mentoring, and research, including the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.
Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan is a fifth-year Counseling Psychology PhD candidate with Drs. Goodman and Tummala-Narra. He has conducted research on subtypes of PTSD and dissociative disorders, policies and practices of domestic violence shelters, experiences of sexual trauma among racial-minority men, and psychoanalysis. Jonathan’s dissertation focuses on the psychotherapy experiences of women with trauma histories working with male psychotherapists. Clinically, he has worked in inpatient, college-counseling, and community mental health settings.
Emily Zhang
Emily is a fourth-year Counseling Psychology PhD student. She received her BA in Community Health and Child Study & Human Development and her MA in Clinical Developmental Health and Psychology from Tufts University. She is currently completing her clinical practicum at CEDAR, a clinic that supports young people at clinical high risk for psychosis. Her research interests include examining the various systems that survivors of trauma and domestic violence must navigate, exploring the effects of family dynamics and intergenerational trauma on individuals' experiences of helpseeking, and promoting Asian American mental health.
Catherine Xie
Catherine is a second-year Counseling Psychology PhD student. She received her BA in Psychology and Honors in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality from Stanford University. Prior to coming to BC, she worked as an early childhood educator for two years and served as a research associate at Yale Psychiatry for a year. She is primarily interested in researching how intersectional oppression shapes intimate partner violence, and developing feminist, anti-carceral solutions to combating interpersonal and institutional violence.
Lab Alumni
Suzanne Slattery
Dissertation: Contributors to secondary traumatic stress and burnout among domestic violence advocates: An ecological approach
Margaret Bell
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Staying and Leaving: Implications for Battered Women’s Emotional Well-Being and Experiences of Violence
Rachel Latta
Dissertation: Struggling to Define My Role: The Experience of Network Members Who Intervened in Intimated Partner Violence
Sarah Weintraub
Dissertation: Working With and For: Advocates' Experience of Feminist Relational Advocacy
Catherine Glenn
Dissertation: Living With and Within the Rules of Domestic Violence Shelters: A Qualitative Exploration of Residents' Experiences
Angela Borges
Dissertation: Psychologists' Experiences Working with Clients in Poverty: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Meghan Pugach
Dissertation: Low-Income Women's Experiences in Outpatient Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis
Julie Woulfe
Dissertation: LGBTQ Survivors of Identity Abuse: Heterosexist and Gender Oppressive Abuse Tactics and their Relationship to Mental Health Among LGBTQ Survivors
Jennifer Fauci
Dissertation: You Don't Need Nobody Else Knocking You Down: Survivor-Mothers' Experiences of Surveillance in Domestic Violence Shelters
Joshua Wilson
Dissertation: A Grounded Theory Investigation of Survivor-Advocates in Domestic Violence Agencies
Helen Hailes
Dissertation: "They're Out to Take Away Your Sanity": An Ecological Investigation of Gaslighting in Intimate Partner Violence