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Lab members

Current

  • Christyn Dolbier (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at ECU. She is originally from Gainesville, Florida, and her education and training took her across the country before coming back to the southeast and settling in Greenville in 2003. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Eckerd College, Master’s degree from the University of Florida, doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco. She is a health psychologist specializing in stress reduction interventions and biopsychosocial pathways between stress and health. She teaches, advises, and mentors psychology graduate and undergraduate students, conducts research on stress and its relationship to health, facilitates mindfulness-based interventions, and is involved in resilience initiatives on campus. In her free time, Christyn enjoys spending time with family, being outdoors in nature, and reading.
  • Sarah Vanacore (she/her/hers) is a fifth-year graduate student in the clinical health psychology doctoral program at ECU, and is completing her pre-doctoral internahip at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. She earned her BA in English Literature, her MA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MA in Psychology from Rutgers University-Camden. Before starting at ECU, she worked in academic support in higher education for ten years. Her research interests include stress and coping, specifically how coping strategies and flexibility in coping facilitate psychosocial adjustment, well-being, and growth. She is currently working on her dissertation project, an evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Coping Flexibility Scale-Revised (Kato, 2020) in a sample of U.S. college students. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and camping.
  • Alia Simon (she/her) is a third-year clinical health psychology graduate student at ECU. She earned her BA from the University of Tampa. Her current research interests include: stress management, resilience, mental health, interoception, and mindfulness interventions. Alia is pursuing her thesis focused on examining relationships among cumulative life stress, interoceptive dysregulation, and psychopathological presentations within emerging adults.
  • Kelsey Dietrich (she/her) is a first-year graduate student in the clinical health psychology doctoral program at ECU. She is from Port Clinton, OH. Kelsey earned her BA in English and Psychology from Bowling Green State University and MA in Psychological Sciences (clinical-counseling track) from the University of Minnesota Duluth where she was Research Team Coordinator for the Mind-Body Trauma Care Lab with a thesis about 1-1 trauma-sensitive yoga. Her research interests include integrative health care, trauma-informed mind-body interventions, and coping with chronic health conditions. Kelsey enjoys reading, guiding yoga classes, and playing with her puppy, Leo..
  • Kolby Kinnaman (she/her) is a senior at ECU pursuing a BA in Psychology. Her research interests include stress and coping, mental health, and well-being. She plans to apply to the clinical health psychology graduate school to attain a Ph.D. in health psychology with a concentration in clinical health. She is working on an honors senior thesis examining relationships of individualism/collectivism with stress, depression and anxiety symptoms in college students. She expresses her passion for leadership and helping others in her free time. She is a certified fitness instructor and the president of the Delta Alpha chapter of Alpha Phi at ECU. She enjoys sending time with her family and friends, physical activity, and listening to podcasts. 
  • Jordan Signorelli (she/her) is a senior at ECU pursing a BA in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. She is a part of the Honors College at ECU, and her research interests include stress and coping, mental health, and well-being. She is working on an honors senior thesis examining loneliness and social anxiety in college students during the pandemic. She plans to attend graduate school to obtain a PhD in health psychology with a concentration in clinical health. In her free time she enjoys hiking, working out, reading, listening to music/podcasts, and hanging out with her friends, family and dog.

  • Aaliyah Buford (she/her) is a junior at ECU pursing a BA in Psychology with a minor in Military Science. Her research interests include stress and coping, mental health, and well-being. She plans to pursue a PsyD upon graduation in hopes of becoming a clinical psychologist in the U.S. Army. She is a part of many organizations on campus, including the Psychology Club. She enjoys spending time hanging out with friends, hiking, traveling and working out. 

Previous doctoral students

  • Lauren Conder, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Erin Haley, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow in Health Psychology, Henry Ford Health System
  • Meghan Sharp, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Research Scientist at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, https://vivo.brown.edu/display/msharp6
  • Taylor Rush, Ph.D., Department of Neuro-Restoration, Cleveland Clinic, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff/20069-taylor-rush