Separate levels of analysis.
Differences between people and changes within a person answer different questions. Treating them as interchangeable can flatten the process we are trying to explain.
About
I study how personality is organized within the self and in relationships.
I am a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan studying personality pathology, self and interpersonal functioning, and the ways psychological patterns are expressed across relationships, contexts, and time.
Connecting psychological organization, interpersonal life, and clinical meaning.
My research is organized around a broad question: how do relatively enduring features of personality become expressed in the way people understand themselves, relate to others, and function in everyday life?
I draw on dimensional models of psychopathology, contemporary interpersonal theory, and psychodynamic and developmental approaches to personality. I am especially interested in what we learn when different levels or perspectives do not line up neatly: between-person structure versus within-person process, self-report versus informant perspective, or stable disposition versus context-sensitive behavior.
Across empirical research and public writing, I aim to develop models that are theoretically rich, methodologically rigorous, clinically interpretable, and attentive to the experiences of the people they are intended to describe.
Working principles
Precision, context, and clinical meaning belong in the same frame.
The design of a study should express the theory it is meant to test.
Preserve the interpersonal context.
Personality pathology is expressed in relationships and embedded in broader social systems. Assessment should retain that context rather than subtract it away.
Use methods that fit the question.
Quantitative sophistication matters when the design and analysis match the level at which the psychological phenomenon is supposed to exist.
Training
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
University of Michigan · Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory
M.S. in Clinical Research Methods
Fordham University · Bronx Personality Lab · GPA 4.0
B.A. in Psychology
California State University, Los Angeles · Summa Cum Laude · GPA 4.0
Research in conversation
Presenting the question, not just the result.
At the 2025 meeting of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders in Boston, I presented research on whether borderline personality disorder predicts treatment outcome in partial hospitalization once broader internalizing and harmful substance use dimensions are taken into account.
The findings suggested that after modeling these broader dimensions, the borderline diagnosis contributed very little unique prognostic information. The presentation opened a larger conversation about what diagnostic labels add, what dimensional models clarify, and how clinical prediction changes when we shift the level of analysis.
Read the published study overviewMethods
Methods in service of psychological questions.
Interpersonal circumplexStructural Summary MethodMultilevel modelingStructural equation modelingBayesian estimationMonte Carlo simulationBootstrap resamplingEcological momentary assessmentR package developmentShiny applicationsReproducible workflowsOpen science
Recognition
Rackham Merit Fellow
University of Michigan, 2026
Approach
Theoretical integration, empirical precision, clinical meaning, and respect for lived experience.
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