Lillian R. Glushka, BA

Education and Training

BA, McGill University, 2022 

Biographical Sketch

Lillian Glushka is a first-year graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2022, she graduated with distinction from McGill University with a BA in Psychology. Following graduation, Lillian spent two years as a post-baccalaureate research coordinator and assistant for the Optimizing Psychosocial Treatments (OPT) Lab at American University, directed by Dr. Alice Coyne. Her research to date has focused on examining patient emotional and interpersonal characteristics that influence psychotherapy processes (e.g., patient-therapist alliance attunement and rupture-repair), and their related impact on treatment outcomes. In the Psychotherapy Research Lab, Lillian is also involved in implementing data-driven patient-therapist matching approaches to enhance treatment personalization and support patient improvement. 

Research Interests

Psychotherapy process and outcome; treatment personalization; data-informed patient-therapist matching; moderators of treatment impact; patient-therapist attunement; alliance rupture-repair