Anuj H. P. Mehta, MS

Education and Training

MS, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2025

BSc, University of Toronto, Scarborough, 2021

Biographical Sketch

Anuj Mehta is a third-year graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2021, he graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Scarborough with a BSc in Mental Health Studies. After graduating, Anuj worked as a Research Specialist at the Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Overcoming Trauma (PIVOT) Lab at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Simultaneously, he worked as a research coordinator for the individual-participant data meta-analysis research team led by Drs. Ellen Driessen and Zachary Cohen. Anuj began his graduate work at UMass in 2023, and he was awarded a Graduate Fellowship during his first year. His research centers broadly on psychotherapy process, outcome, and implementation. More specifically, his master’s thesis parsed the association between positive regard and patient improvement into its within- and between-therapist components and tested moderators of such associations. He has also studied the presence of therapist effectiveness differences across various cultural and clinical contexts, as well as predictors of such differences. In patient-engaged research, Anuj has examined patients' values and preferences related to referral processes and treatment matching.

Research Interests

Improving and personalizing mental health care; theory-common and theory-specific treatment factors; culturally salient factors affecting treatment outcome; measurement-based care; therapist effects