Senior Staff

Malena A. Nygaard, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lab for Youth Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She Co-Directs a randomized clinical trial of the FIRST treatment protocol (Weisz & Bearman, 2020) and provides...

Julie Petersen, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow and project director of the Youth FIRST Study in the Lab for Youth Mental Health. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Haverford College, and her master's and Ph.D. in clinical and...