Ann is a 2015 Ph.D. from the clinical psychology program at the University of Minnesota. She is currently a core assistant professor in the counseling psychology Psy.D. program at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. She served as a postdoctoral resident at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Center City, Minnesota. She is interested in cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy for mood and anxiety disorders as well as developmental influences on psychopathology. Prior to starting graduate school, Ann worked as the Luciana Laboratory coordinator for many years, spearheading the lab’s current longitudinal projects. In collaboration with the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research, her dissertation focused on interactions between life stress and genetic variants in the serotonin transporter polymorphism in conferring risk for depressive disorder in a young adult twin sample.

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