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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. She conducts community-based participatory research on intimate partner violence, aiming to illuminate how survivors use their social networks for healing and safety, and how to improve systemic responses. Dr. Goodman has consulted to multiple local and national organizations, including the National Resource Center on Domestic Violenceand the American Civil Liberties Union; and she has conducted domestic violence program evaluation trainings in communities across the country. Dr. Goodman also serves as a forensic expert in cases where intimate partner violence and coercive control contributed to the crime or conviction. She has received several national awards for her teaching, mentoring, and research, including the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.

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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

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