Student Scholar Spotlight

OCEANN GITTENS

Oceann Stanley Gittens is a 3rd year graduate student in the School Psychology Doctoral Program at Louisiana State University.  Oceann completed practicum experience with TCM Independent Contractor during the Spring 2023 semester. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Western Carolina University. Her professional interests center around increasing the access of equitable mental health services in schools. She is particularly passionate about promoting wellness in both students and their educators through school- and class-wide interventions. Her thesis sought to improve self-regulation skills in preschoolers through a class-wide meditation intervention and, for her dissertation, Oceann is currently investigating a brief mindfulness-based intervention to improve wellbeing, and thus reduce burnout, in educators. Outside of the program, Oceann enjoys practicing yoga, exploring new cities, and hiking with her husband and their pup, Hudson.

Thesis: Mindfulness meditation and personality effects on self-regulation in preschoolers

Dissertation: BE MINDFUL: Examining a brief mindfulness intervention on educator well-being

Societies: NASP & APA