Psych Mic
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsPsych Mic is a podcast for psychology students to explore the endless ways they can use their psychology background to make an impact! In each episode, host Maya interviews an industry leader about their career path and advice for students. Because psychology is so widely applicable, it can be a challenge to figure out what to do next. These episodes will give you language to talk about your passions, uncensored tips about graduate school and career development, and lots of confidence in your psych background!
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Finding quality experiences | Neuropsychology with Dr. Eric Connors
April 29, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBEric Connors, Ph.D is a neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow at Home Base. He is a Boston native and he obtained his Bachelor of Science at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Shortly after graduation, he moved to San Diego to complete his graduate studies at the APA-accredited Alliant International University. His first clinical experience involved conducting neuropsychological evaluations with those in the acute stages of recovery following an acquired brain injury. Witne...
Re-imagining schools | with Dr. Melinda Macht-Greenberg
April 22, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBMelinda Macht-Greenberg, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who earned her doctorate from Ferkauf in Clinical, Developmental, and School Psychology at Yeshiva University in NY. She offers consultation to parents, individual and family therapy, and educational advising. Dr. Macht-Greenberg works with families experiencing significant stressors and offers therapy for children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depression, ADHD, Autism and other emotional struggles. She provides a comprehens...
Strategies for student success and challenging the status quo | with Dr. Eric Landrum
April 15, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBR. Eric Landrum, PhD, is a professor of psychology and department chair at Boise State University, receiving his PhD in cognitive psychology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His research interests center on the educational conditions that best facilitate student success. He has over 425 professional presentations at conferences and published 3 edited texts, 23 books/textbooks, 29 book chapters, and has published over 85 professional articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals....
Teaching in psychology | with Garth Neufeld
April 08, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBGarth Neufeld, LMFT, teaches an array of psychology courses at Cascadia College where he has been a professor since 2016. Garth is the founder of Teaching Introductory Psychology Northwest and the co-founder of the PsychSessions: Conversations About Teaching N’ Stuff podcast. Garth is the Director of Regional Conference Programming for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the co-chair of APA’s Introductory Psychology Initiative. He has served the national teaching of psychology com...
Nursing with a psych lens | Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney
April 01, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBAshley Darcy-Mahoney, PhD, NNP, FAAN, a neonatal nurse practitioner and researcher, has worked throughout her career to advance nursing research, education and practice, with a focus on neonatology, infant health and developmental pediatrics. Her research has led to the creation of programs that improve health and developmental outcomes for at-risk and preterm infants. As an associate professor of nursing and the director of infant research at George Washington University’s Autism and Neu...
Applying your psychology degree | with Health Psychologist Dr. Stacie Spencer
March 25, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBStacie M. Spencer, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the BS in Health Psychology program at MCPHS University (formerly the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Boston, MA). She received her BA from Allegheny College and her MA and PhD from Northeastern University in Experimental Social and Personality Psychology. She later did her Post-Doc at the University of Miami in Behavioral Medicine. A recipient of the MCPHS Trustees’ Award for Teaching Excellence,...
The pursuit of excellence | Positive psychology with Daniel Lerner
March 18, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBDaniel Lerner, MAPP, is an expert in positive and performance psychologies. His key theme is that developing a healthy psychological state has a profound impact on the pursuit of excellence—a message that he brings to students, established and high-potential performing artists and athletes, and executives at Fortune 500 companies and startups worldwide. Dan is a faculty member at NYU, is on the teaching staff in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylva...
Learn from the people you serve | Juvenile justice with Dr. Chris Branson
March 12, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBChris Branson, Ph.D is a licensed psychologist and nationally-recognized expert in trauma-informed practice for the juvenile justice system. Since 2012, he has provided consultation on trauma-informed practice to state and county juvenile justice systems in nine states. Dr. Branson has personally trained over 1,000 professionals in probation, detention/corrections, court, and diversion program settings. He also consults for several national organizations, including the US Department of Justi...
Justice and liberation in the therapy room | Dr. Eleonora Bartoli
March 04, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBEleonora Bartoli, Ph.D is a therapist who provides counseling and consulting services with expertise in trauma, resilience, and multicultural/social justice issues. Eleonora grew up in Italy and later received her bachelor's in psychology and philosophy at Brandeis University, and her Ph.D in Psychology: Human Development and Mental Health Research at the University of Chicago. On her website, she writes "I began my undergraduate career equally passionate in philosophy and psychology; what u...
Where ideas meet impact | Community psychology with Dr. Shabnam Javdani
February 25, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBShabnam Javdani, Ph.D is a clinical and community psychologist who examines and intervenes in the health and mental health disparities created by persistent inequality. Javdani completed her doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, and completed an APA-approved clinical internship in the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago prior to coming to NYU. The overarching goal of her scholarship is to understand and reduce the dev...
Variety is the spice of life | Research, therapy, and writing with Dr. Ruvanee Vilhauer
February 18, 2021 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBRuvanee Pietersz Vilhauer has worked as a science writer for NASA, a biology researcher and a therapist in various settings, including a jail. For many years, her day job has been as an academic psychologist. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago and teaches at New York University. She grew up in Sri Lanka and lived in India, Thailand, Canada and Australia before settling in the United States. Her short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and her essays and shor...
It's never too late to reinvent yourself | Mental health innovation with Dr. Hillary Lin
February 11, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBHillary Lin, MD is a physician and founder of Curio, a creative and social mental health startup. Hillary was trained at Stanford (BS, MD, GSB Cert, and Residency), where she also developed her passion for healthcare innovation. She also practices internal medicine via telemedicine. Curio is an end-to-end emotional intelligence diagnostics and training platform working on areas such as emotional resilience, leadership, team bonding, and workplace performance. They offer live workshops as ...
Passion matters | A career in research with Dr. Pascal Wallisch
February 04, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBPascal Wallisch, Ph.D is one of the most adored professors of psychology and data science at NYU. In this episode, we how he moved from "obsessively playing video games, to obsessively taking classes, to obsessively doing research, to obsessively teaching." Along the way, we talk about: his German upbringing, why passion matters, why people who start grad school in their 30s tend to do better, why he thinks about teaching like metalworking, whether psych is a science, fusing data ...
A backwards path into couples therapy | Dr. Carolyn Perla
January 28, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBCarolyn Perla, Ph.D is a therapist and psychoeducator who works with individuals, couples, and groups. She has been practicing for 45 years. In this episode, we explore her beginnings in theater performance and early childhood education, how her relationships inform her practice, why her mentors kept pushing her to pursue more training, whether a background in sex therapy is necessary for working with couples, why Carolyn doesn't (and has never) marketed herself, her attitude towards boundar...
Pivoting, mentors, and keeping science human | Dr. Weiji Ma
January 21, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBWeiji Ma, Ph.D is a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU. In this episode, we discuss his bizarre childhood — he graduated from high school at 14, from college at 16, and with his Ph.D in theoretical physics at 22 — how he decides it's time to pivot, his "delusions of grandeur," how to identify a toxic mentor (and find a great one), how he keeps science human-centered, and more. Read his full bio on psychmic.com. If you're still curious about things we didn't cover during this ...
Pivoting, mentors, and keeping science human | Dr. Weiji Ma
January 21, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBWeiji Ma, Ph.D is a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU. In this episode, we discuss his bizarre childhood — he graduated from high school at 14, from college at 16, and with his Ph.D in theoretical physics at 22 — how he decides it's time to pivot, his "delusions of grandeur," how to identify a toxic mentor (and find a great one), how he keeps science human-centered, and more. Read his full bio on psychmic.com. If you're still curious about things we didn't cover during this ...
Welcome to Psych Mic - Trailer
January 16, 2021 21:00 - 1 minute - 1.21 MBLearn the story behind Psych Mic and get ready for the first episode on January 21! Visit psychmic.com to submit questions and get more information about our amazing speakers. Music by: Adam Fine