Lab Members
Lab Members
Lab Coordinator
Practice specialization:
schema therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, queer-affirmative therapy, neurodivergent-affirming therapy, alliance-focused interventions, psychometrics and test development
Research areas:
therapeutic alliance, supervisory alliance, mental health process-outcome research, mental health intervention studies, phenomenological psychopathology, digital mental health, clinical case studies
Senior Member
Practice specialization:
existential-humanistic therapy, queer-affirmative therapy, transdiagnostic assessment and interventions, disaster and community mental health, mental health program and policy development and evaluation
Research areas:
pagdududa (doubt) and related processes, transdiagnostic variables/processes, psychotherapy/intervention studies, therapist training, university-based mental health care
Senior Member
Practice specialization:
dialectical behavior therapy, child and adolescent mental health, systemic therapy, family interventions, disaster and community mental health, clinical supervision
Research areas:
disaster management, crisis response and community resilience, clinical governance, university-based mental health care
Senior Member
Practice specialization:
transdiagnostic interventions, emotion-focused and emotion-based interventions targetting emotion dysregulation and promoting emotion regulation, cognitive behavioral therapy, neuropsychological assessment
Research areas:
emotion dysregulation, transdiagnostic psychopathology, emotion-focused and transdiagnostic interventions, qualitative clinical psychology
Senior Member
Practice specialization:
marriage and family therapy, disaster and community mental health, addiction recovery, mental health program, and policy development and evaluation
Research areas:
individual and community resilience, ginhawa (wellbeing), addiction and substance use treatment, indigenous psychology, and psychology of religion and spirituality
Associate Member
Practice specialization:
cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, mindful self-compassion
Research areas:
perfectionism, (self-)compassion, coping, students' psychological and academic needs
Associate Member
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Associate Member
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Associate Member
Practice specialization:
Social justice-oriented therapies (e.g., queer affirmative, feminist), existential-humanistic therapy, mindfulness-based interventions
Research areas:
Gender disparities in psychopathology, women’s mental health, indigenous and decolonizing interventions, community mental health
Associate Member
Practice specialization:
Neuropsychological assessment (children, adolescent, and adult), psychological assessment, trauma-informed therapy
Research areas:
neuropsychology, neurodevelopmental disorders (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder), neurological disorders (stroke, encephalitis), neurodegenerative disorders (dementia, Parkinson’s disease), psychometrics
Associate Member
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Associate Member
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Associate Member
Practice specialization:
neurocognitive evaluation, cognitive-rehabilitation
Research areas:
dementia-science, neurocognitive-intervention outcome, healthy brain ageing
Grazianne-Geneve Mendoza
Junior Member
Practice specialization: existential-humanistic psychotherapy, indigenous wellbeing interventions, community mental health, clinical assessment
Research areas: pagdududa ng mga sikoterapist (psychotherapists’ experience of doubting), emotions, diary methods
Adrian Jay C. Alforque, RPm
Junior Member
Practice specialization: queer-affirmative therapy, indigenous wellbeing interventions, community mental health, culturally-grounded psychological assessment and test development
Research areas: gender euphoria, queer and trans ginhawa (wellbeing), LGBTQ mental health, psychological measurement and assessment
Jacqueline Dimalanta, RPm
Junior Member
Practice specialization: psychological assessment, existential-humanistic therapy, queer-affirmative therapy, indigenous wellbeing interventions, community mental health
Research areas: Sikolohiyang Pilipinong Pang-Klinika (SPPK), malasakit (compassion), wellbeing of mental health practitioners, cognitive development in children, decolonial pedagogy
Affiliate Member
Practice specialization:
disaster psychology, clinical psychology, social support science
Research areas:
social support, disaster mental health, climate change psychology, traumatic stress
Affiliate Member
Practice specialization:
assessment psychology, health psychology, interprofessional education
Research areas:
mental health and wellbeing (migrant workers and community), health professions education, interprofessional education, assessment