Lab Team

Dr. Goeke-Morey is a CUA faculty colleague who is a key collaborator with the Adolescents and Families Team on the Family Mindfulness project. More information about Dr. Goeke-Morey can be found on her faculty profile and lab pages. 

Bridget defended her dissertation in the spring of 2022 and recently completed a clinical postdoctoral fellowship at Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants, LLP in White Plains, NY. Prior to that, she completed a predoctoral internship as the unit therapist on an adolescent inpatient unit at Fairmount Behavioral Health System in Philadelphia, PA. Bridget currently works as a licensed staff psychologist at Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants, where she practices DBT and CBT primarily with adolescents and young adults. As a graduate student, Bridget was an active contributor to the team's Family Mindfulness Project. For her dissertation, Bridget examined factors contributing to family resilience among families whose children attended Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs. 

Andrew is a graduate of CUA's clinical Ph.D. program. He defended his dissertation in the spring of 2021. He is currently a licensed staff psychologist at the Rochester DBT Institute in Rochester, NY. Prior to this, he completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Genesee Valley Psychology (GVP) in Rochester, NY in the DBT track. While at GVP, he also specialized in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) interventions for OCD. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Catholic University of America Counseling Center in 2021.

During his doctoral studies at CUA his research focused on expanding on/better defining relationships, commonalities, and differences between mindfulness/self-compassion and how mindfulness/self-compassion interventions directly affect relationship variable outcomes.

Prior to commencing doctoral study at CUA, he worked at Children's Hospital - Los Angeles in the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine's chronic pain clinic, conducting research on integrative interventions for pediatric chronic pain.

In his personal life, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and two children (1 and 3 years old!) and when he can find the time, he enjoys playing guitar and being physically active in one capacity or another

Kesley defended her dissertation in Fall, 2019, and is now a postdoctoral fellows at the Johns Hopkins Center for the study of OCD, Anxiety, and Related Issues.  Her research interests center on identifying risk and resilience factors for children and families dealing with psychopathology. Kesley examined resiliency in children and dynamics within parent-child relationships during in the Adolescents and Families Lab. For her master’s thesis, Kesley used regression and growth curve analysis to examine the role of parental support as an influence on the adjustment of adolescents who had made a recent, serious suicide attempt. Kesley partnered with Children’s National Health System for her dissertation, which focused on the adjustment of youth presenting to an outpatient medical clinic following a concussion. Kesley also has a passion for teaching and program development. She received the Excellence in Teaching Award from CUA’s Psychology Department in December 2016 and actively contributed to an undergraduate curriculum development project within the Department. Kesley completed her clinical internship at Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health in Ohio, and will soon be starting 

In 2019 Rick completed his predoctoral internship at the VA of Greater Los Angeles, Sepulveda campus, and successfully defend his dissertation, which used an experience sampling methodology to evaluate the effects of a brief mindful self-compassion intervention.  He currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the Capital Institute for Cognitive Therapy in Washington, DC. After years spent working in the tech field, Rick developed a deep interest in mindfulness and psychology while on a three-month long trip to South Africa, where he worked to provide healthcare to HIV positive children. As a student at CUA, Rick pursued research interests that seek to better understand the effects of mindfulness-based interventions (and specifically mindful self-compassion-based interventions), and how such interventions can be enhanced through the use of mobile technology.