Cognition & Affective Disorders Lab
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Lab Director: Dr. Leanne Quigley
Dr. Leanne Quigley is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She completed a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada and a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada.
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Dr. Quigley’s research focuses on the interplay between cognitive and emotional factors in the etiology and treatment of emotional disorders, particularly depression and anxiety. She has studied biases in cognitive processes, such as executive functioning and attention, in depressed and remitted depressed populations. Some of her other projects have focused on emotion regulation and avoidance in depression, psychometric evaluation of measures of cognitive vulnerability factors, and cognitive mediation of treatment response in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression. Dr. Quigley teaches Statistics, Data Analysis, and Cognitive Therapy in the Ferkauf Clinical PsyD program. Click here to view Dr. Quigley's faculty page.
Sarah Horne
Sarah is a sixth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University, where she worked in the McNally Laboratory studying anxiety disorders and depression. As a graduate student, Sarah’s research has focused on cognitive mechanisms underlying depression. Her primary research interests include anhedonia, affective forecasting, motivation, and reward learning. Sarah is currently completing her pre-doctoral internship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, working with children, adolescents, and young adults with mood, anxiety, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Courtney Townsend
Courtney is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy and Slavic Studies from Connecticut College and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from The New School for Social Research. Prior to starting at Ferkauf, Courtney worked as a research assistant at the Substance Use Research Center of New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is currently an extern at New York Presbyterian-Westchester Behavioral Health's Substance Use Recovery Unit and the Database Coordinator for the Clinical PsyD program. Her research and clinical interests include the functions of substance use, identity continuity, and mood disorders. Email: ctownse1@mail.yu.edu
Kaitlin Levin
Kaitlin is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She earned a B.A. in psychology and religious studies from Northwestern University before completing a master's degree in social psychology at Arizona State University. Prior to attending Ferkauf, Kaitlin spent several years working as a trial consultant for a Chicago-based litigation strategy firm. She is currently externing at New York Presbyterian’s Women’s Inpatient Unit. Her primary clinical interests include women's mental health with a focus on reproductive psychology specifically perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Her research focuses on the role of metacognition in the etiology, maintenance, and escalation of depersonalization disorder. Email: klevin@mail.yu.edu
Aryeh Schwartz
Aryeh is a sixth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program. He earned a B.A. in
Psychology with a minor in Marketing Management from Touro College. Prior to his doctoral
training at Ferkauf, Aryeh worked as a research assistant at the Emotion Regulation Lab at
Hunter College. He is currently completing his internship at the Bronx VA Medical Center.
Before internship, Aryeh completed year-long externships at the Brooklyn College Personal
Counseling Center, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, The Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy
& Research, and the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Center at NYU Langone Health. He also
provided individual therapy at Ferkauf’s Parnes Clinic for two years. Aryeh’s clinical interests
center around psychotherapy integration and providing care to underserved populations. His
Research Project II is investigating the longitudinal association between autobiographical
memory, future thinking, and depression, and is currently in the data analysis phase. Email:
aschwar9@mail.yu.edu
Chloe Hirschowitz
​​Chloe is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Hunter College while volunteering for a research study exploring PTSD in World Trade Center first-responders. Prior to attending Ferkauf, Chloe worked at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center investigating topics ranging from childhood trauma to sexually transmitted infections in minoritized teens and young adults. She also spent some time volunteering as an emergency room advocate for sexual assault and intimate partner violence survivors. Chloe is currently externing at Brooklyn College Personal Counseling Program. Her clinical and research interests include anxiety, depression, PTSD, and sexual wellbeing in adolescents and young adults. Email: chirscho@mail.yu.edu
Allison Roland
Allison is a fifth-year student in the Clinical PsyD Program. She earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. in psychology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently a Psychology Intern at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and has held externship positions at the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Center at NYU Langone, Gracie Square Hospital, and the Albert Ellis Institute. Her research focuses on emotion regulation as a specific vulnerability factor in depression recurrence and the interactive role of emotion regulation and life stress in depression relapse risk. Email: aroland@mail.yu.edu
Wendy Woods
Wendy Woods is a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and she received her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. Wendy has worked in the Social Psychology Lab at Cornell University studying implicit biases, and she did research in the Spirituality and Psychology Lab at Columbia University studying measures of belonging and ways to implement holistic teaching in elementary schools. Her master's thesis focused on reviewing measures of spirituality in the clinical setting. Her Doctoral Research Project examined the concept of gratitude through a cognitive lens. Email: wwoods@mail.yu.edu
Jack Mangini
Jack is a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program. Jack graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from McGill University. His undergraduate thesis focused on the role that empathic accuracy plays in perceived social support. Before coming to Ferkauf, Jack worked at the Institute for Child Development at SUNY Binghamton where he taught children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. His Doctoral Research Project was a systematic review of research on social support as a protective factor for the development of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Email: jmangin1@mail.yu.edu
Blake Katz
Blake is a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Tulane University. Prior to her graduate school studies, she worked in Copenhagen’s Futurization of Thinking and Behavior lab, which focuses on the personal and global futures of college students living in the United States, Denmark, and China. She is currently a pre-doctoral neuropsychology extern at New York Presbyterian Behavioral Health. She previously externed at Montefiore Neuropsychology Assessment Service (NAS) and the College of Staten Island Counseling Center. Blake's clinical and research interests include mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies. Email: bkatz8@mail.yu.edu
Chayim Rosensweig
Chayim is a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology Psy.D Program. He earned his M.A. in Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, and his B.A. in Psychology at Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University. Prior to his graduate training, Chayim worked as a Sr. Research Assistant at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is currently a pre-doctoral extern therapist at New York Presbyterian-Westchester Behavioral Health Center and at the Max and Celia Parnes Family Psychological and Psychoeducational Services Clinic. He previously externed at Zucker Hillside Hospital’s Behavioral Health College Partnership program and the Pace University Counseling Center. Chayim is also working as a clinical interviewer at Deliberate Health. Chayim’s primary research interests include the self-concept and psychopathology, depression, anxiety, suicide, and community psychology. He is currently conducting analyses for his Doctoral Dissertation, which focuses on the longitudinal associations between temporal self-appraisal and depression. Email: Chayim.rosensweig@mail.yu.edu
Maddy Kulke
Maddy is a third-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program. Maddy earned their B.A in philosophy, with a minor in computer science, from Smith College. Maddy is currently a pre-doctoral extern at Maimonides Medical Center in the LGBTQ subspecialty clinic. They previously externed at Queens TASC, on the forensic assessment track, and at LIM College Counseling Services. Maddy's clinical and research interests include psychological assessment, executive functioning, and the interplay of cognitive and affective processes in mood disorders. For their doctoral dissertation, Maddy is developing and assessing a novel measure of interoception in individuals with Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder. Email: mkulke@mail.yu.edu
Shoshana Reichman
Shoshana is a third-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Yeshiva University, as an Honors student. Shoshana currently is a pre-doctoral extern at Mount Sinai CBT for the Treatment and Prevention of Psychosis Research and Clinical Program. At this externship, she conducts clinical assessments for patients ages 12-30 in psychiatry outpatient mental health and provides individual, group, and family-based CBT. Shoshana previously was an extern at Together CBT where she was trained in CBT for adults with depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. She administered and scored assessment measures and conducted individual cognitive behavioral psychotherapy sessions with adult patients. Her clinical and research interests include understanding different facets of memory, specifically in individuals with depression. Email: sreichm1@mail.yu.edu
Christianna Morse
Christie is a second-year student in the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program. She earned her B.A. in neuroscience with a minor in Philosophy from Hamilton College. Her undergraduate thesis explored tools aimed at relieving agitation and decreasing falls among individuals with neurocognitive disorders in residential facilities. Before coming to Ferkauf, Christie worked as a paraeducator for 7th graders with developmental delays, in addition to her work as a Research Assistant for the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, where she was an integral part of several Alzheimer's disease clinical trials. She is pursuing the neuropsychology track at Ferkauf, and is currently a pre-doctoral neuropsychology extern at Mount Sinai Epilepsy program. Her current research interests include exploring the relationship between cognitive control and substance use disorder, particularly with regard to their role as risk factors for Neurocognitive Disorders. Email: morsec@mail.yu.edu
Alumni
Caroline Capute
Caroline graduated from the Clinical Psychology PsyD program in 2023. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Atlanta, GA. Caroline's Doctoral Dissertation examined the effects of attachment style on support-seeking and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic and was published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12458
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Stephanie La Gamma
Stephanie graduated from the Clinical Psychology PsyD program in 2023. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at NYU-Bellevue Hospital Center. Stephanie's Doctoral Dissertation examined the influence of adverse childhood experiences on cognitive reactivity in depressed adults.
Hannah Hager
Hannah graduated from the Clinical Psychology PsyD program in 2024. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Bellevue Hospital Center and Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on their Forensic Track. Hannah's Doctoral Research Project contrasted cumulative risk and dimensional models of the effects of adverse childhood experiences on the development of executive functioning, comparing their relative empirical support.