Category Archives: Clinical PsyD
NYC: Just a Hop, Skip, and a Four-and-a-half-hour Chinatown Bus Ride Away
Being a student in Boston allows you access to all of the amazing resources that the city has to offer: museums, libraries, colleges, restaurants, sports venues. It’s an old city that fosters a quaint, town-ish charm with its many 19th-century-Paris-inspired … Continue reading
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How to Write 40 Pages in a Week
A step-by-step guide on how to complete 5 papers for the same week: Work out a lot. The endorphins will give you energy to keep going. Bake cookies. They will help your emotional stability. Go to parties. My MSPP friend … Continue reading
Posted in Around Boston, Clinical PsyD, Personal Growth
Tagged Hurricane, Midterms, papers
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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Wheelock College Counseling Center
My second-year PsyD practicum is at Wheelock College, a program that complements my first-year practicum work at Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s Psychiatry Unit. I went from diagnoses, formal titles, and overhead lighting to psychotherapy, first-name bases, and Bed Bath & Beyond lamps. … Continue reading
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Removing the “shmindfulness” from “mindfulness shmindfulness”
When I first heard about this “mindfulness” business, I thought to myself, “Bologna.” I don’t even think that I cared enough to give it a full “bologna” – I think I thought “Bolo -” and then my cat walked by … Continue reading
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Weathering the Storm
We had a stats midterm today. And you know what, despite the high probability I calculated that the stress from the exam might kill me, I survived. By some miracle, I survived. We all did. My whole class walked out … Continue reading
“Food and beverage and feminism will be served”
So we just held our first Gender Equality Committee (formerly Feminist Committee) meeting of the school year, which served as an initial introductory get-together, and it was quite a success. As the co-chair of the committee alongside my good friend, … Continue reading
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Athans Cafe: Come for the coffee and company (but get outta there because of the music)
I’m writing this blog at Athans, a coffee shop in Brookline. After years of being a coffee-shop nomad in Boston, I settled on Athans as my go-to study spot – with its clientele of hard-at-work graduate students, combined with its … Continue reading
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Guest Faculty Post # 2: Latino Mental Health Program Immersion through Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano in Guayaquil, Ecuador
I traveled with Dr. Stacey Lambert, Director of the Latino Mental Health Program, to Guayaquil, Ecuador on Friday, July 27th and returned to the US on Tuesday, July 31st. It was a very short trip, but full of experiences that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecuador, Immersion Program, LMHP, Lucero, Summer
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In Case of Emergency
It would be just my luck to end up in the hospital in a foreign country! Although I came out of it feeling infinitely better than when I went in, I must admit that I was ill prepared. That being … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical PsyD, Forensic Psychology, Latino Mental Health
Tagged Costa Rica, Emergency, Hospital
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