Angela is a fourth year clinical psychology doctoral student at Suffolk University who will be completing her advanced practicum training at Home Base. Angela had always been interested in psychology since high school and college. Throughout her undergraduate career, she was involved with multiple research labs and projects founded in health psychology, behavioral health and technology, and the wellbeing of both individuals and their families. She also volunteered evening and overnight shifts on an anonymous helpline: a 24/7 platform for the surrounding Charlottesville community to call if they needed someone to talk to.

After graduating from the University of Virginia, she knew she wanted to continue to pursue psychology. In 2019, she packed up her bags and moved across the country to Chicago where she became a full-time research assistant for two years at Northwestern University Feinberg Medicine. There, she worked both behind her laptop but also directly with many research participants. Through this experience, she had the opportunity to hear of many different stories that people had to share, including their own struggles and journeys with mental health. It was then that Angela realized she had a passion for both sides of psychology – research and clinical.

Angela’s experiences have shaped her in many ways. In September of 2021, she packed her bags once again, this time back to the East Coast where she would begin her first year of grad school. Here, she had the opportunity to train at different sites, including a college counseling center in 2022 and a residential early recovery program at the Bedford VA Medical Center, Domiciliary, in 2023. Her most recent experience taught her that her patients were the biggest teacher. There, she realized she wanted to continue to pursue her work with Veterans and their families.

Now, at Home Base, Angela strives to continue to provide quality, evidence-based care for Veterans and their families at MGH Home Base. Currently, her clinical areas of interest currently include learning about the most effective treatments for mood disorders, serious mental illnesses (SMI), and substance use disorders (SUD), whereas her research interests primarily focus on behavioral health and health psychology, specifically in understanding how to improve the day-to-day lives of adults with chronic health conditions.