PhD candidate and clinical intern
Olivia Pollak
Welcome. I'm a sixth-year clinical psychology doctoral candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and, starting in July 2026, an intern at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital.
Training
Doctoral Internship
July 2026-
Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
Child/Adolescent Emotion Dysregulation and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Track
Graduate
2020-
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (dissertation defended May 2026)
Formal Concentration in Quantitative Psychology
2020-2022
M.A. in Psychology
Undergraduate
2012-2016
Yale University
B.S., Psychology and B.A., History
Summa cum laude
Predoctoral Research
2016-2018
2014-2016
Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Studies
Teachers College, Columbia University (PI: Christine Cha, Ph.D.)
Affect Regulation and Cognition Lab
Yale University (PI: Jutta Joormann, Ph.D.)
Neurodevelopment, Affect, and Psychopathology Lab
Stanford University (PI: Ian Gotlib, Ph.D.)
2014
