Dr. Nicholas Powers

Biography

Nicholas (Nick) is a predoctoral psychology fellow in the Clinical Community Psychology Department at the Yale School of Medicine. He has interned in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Services Program and has clinical training that emphasizes evidence-based interventions for individuals dealing with PTSD, chronic emotional dysregulation, and complex medical conditions. Nick has gained valuable clinical experience through roles at the Philadelphia VA's PTSD Clinical Team, the University of Pennsylvania's Outpatient Psychiatry Center, the Psychosocial Oncology Department at ChristianaCare Hospital, and La Salle University. His research interests focus on the impacts of traumatic events and minority stress on psychological and medical treatment engagement. Nick has collaborated on research projects with institutions including Drexel University, the Center Treatment Study of Anxiety, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is a doctoral candidate in the clinical psychology program at La Salle University, where he is pursuing a PsyD.

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