Past Graduate Students
Dr. Jesse Wilde
PhD Graduation: 2023
Dissertation Title: An Empirical Examination of the Dyadic Partner-Schema Model of Relationship Distress and Depression
Current Employment: Jesse is currently working at Old North Psychology.
Dr. Monica Tomlinson
PhD Graduation: 2020
Dissertation Title: The Role of Cognitive Distortions in the Longitudinal Relationship Between Problematic Drinking and Depressive Symptoms.
Current Employment: Post-doctorate, Zucker Hillside Hospital, New York
Dr. Katerina Rnic
PhD Graduation: 2019
Dissertation Title: Baseline and Stress-Induced Cognitive Control Deficits and Pro-
Inflammatory Cytokines in Currently, Remitted, and Never Depressed Individuals.
Current Employment: Post-doctorate, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
https://daslab.psych.ubc.ca/lab-members/post-doctoral-researcher/
Ms. Lindsay Szota
At Western: 2015-2018
Current Employment: Hamilton Centre for CBT
https://www.hccbt.ca/lindsay-szota.html
Dr. Lyndsay Evraire
PhD Graduation: 2015
Dissertation Title: The Contribution of Attachment Styles and Reassurance Seeking
to Daily Mood and Relationship Quality in Romantic Couples.
Current Employment: Private practice
Connectionspsychology.ca
Dr. Francois Botha
PhD Graduation: 2015
Dissertation Title: Mediators of Change in the Stigmatization of Depression Among Caucasian and Asian Populations.
Current Employment: Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre; Vancouver Anxiety and Stress Centre
Dr. Becky McDermott
PhD Graduation: 2015
Dissertation Title: The Transdiagnostic Prevention of Emotional Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Study.
Current Employment: Chronic Pain Clinic, Kingston Health Sciences Centre
https://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/page/InterprofessionalPainSIG
Dr. Pamela Seeds
PhD Graduation: 2013
Dissertation Title: Interpretive Bias in the Context of Life Stress and Depression:
An Examination of Stress Generation and Diathesis-Stress Models.
Current Employment: Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/people-profiles/pamela-seeds
Dr. Paul Frewen
PhD Graduation: 2013
Dissertation Title: Emotional Awareness, Expression, and Traumatic Stress
Current Employment: Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Western
https://frewen.ca/meditations/
https://frewen.ca/meditations/people.html
Dr. Roger Covin
PhD Graduation: 2008
Dissertation Title: Changing Self-Schema Organization Using an Evaluative Conditioning Procedure
Current Employment: Private practice, Ottawa Ontario.
http://www.ottawapsychservices.ca/about-dr-covin.html
https://www.turningcorners.ca/dr-roger-covin-c-psych/
Dr. Laura Fazakas-DeHoog
PhD Graduation: 2008
Dissertation Title: An Integrated Cognitive-Affective Model of Suicidal Thinking and Behavior
Current Employment: Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health Care,
St. Joseph's Health Care; instructor, University of Western Ontario and King’s University College.
www.laurafazakas.com
Dr. Jay Brinker
PhD Graduation: 2007
Dissertation Title: Dispositional Rumination and Depressed Mood
Current Employment: Department of Psychology, University of Alberta
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jbrinker
Dr. Allison Ouimet
At Western: 2005-2009
Current Employment: Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa.
https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/cadre/people/ouimet-allison