L A B M E M B E R S
Doctoral Students
Graduate Students
Josh Maserow
Josh is an MA student at the New School and an RA at the New School Psychotherapy Program (NSPP). He is a member of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS) task coding group and is interested in how therapeutic intuition and responsiveness impacts working alliance. In a previous life, Josh earned an MA in English Literature and developed educational materials for an education rights organization.
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Lucy Poe
Lucy is a part of the SASB coding group and is interested in identifying dynamics between therapists and patients which predict the best outcomes in therapy. She also is a part of the video tracking assignment team and the double entry assignment team along with her shared lab duties.
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Joanna Diab
Joanna is a second year MA student and an RA at NSPP. Within the Safran Lab, she is a member of the FIS and SASB coding groups, and is currently working on the validation of a recently updated tool, the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS) task. Previously, Joanna graduated from the American University of Beirut with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in Theatre. Joanna is currently interested in therapist contributions to in-session process and patient outcomes. She seeks to contribute to the on-going research on the therapeutic alliance, and is further interested in the fields of psychopathology, trauma psychology, and the benefits of expressive arts.
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Tristan Chirico
Tristan received his BA in History and Philosophy from Wesleyan University in 2006, and recently completed an MA in psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. He currently participates in the SWAIO coding group, which examines signs of rupture and repair in the therapeutic alliance within therapy sessions. His research interests include common factors in effective treatment, issues in the dissemination and reception of clinical psychology research, and the role of the humanities in psychotherapy training and practice.
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Jennifer Whitney
Jen is an MA New School student and RA at the Brief. She is also a meditation and yoga teacher throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, including leading a Mindful Self-Care community in the Psychology Department at NSSR. She is interested in the intersection of Contemplative Practices and Psychology, with special interests in how that relates to the therapeutic alliance, implicit bias, the ability to align our lives with our values, and deepening our relationships. She also teaches yoga for trauma populations, and hopes to integrate that into her studies as well.
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Elena Petrovska
Elena was born in Macedonia and raised in Queens, NY. She is an MA student and research assistant. Elena earned her Bachelor's in psychology from Eugene Lang College at The New School. Starting in high school, she was an avid reader of Freud and became interested in psychoanalysis in college. Elena continues to be interested in transference and counter-transference and how ruptures can be repaired, leading to resiliency in relationships.
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Tori Horn
Tori is She is currently working in the facilitative interpersonal skills - in-session (FIS-IS) coding group. Previously, she has studied committed and casual relationships and would like to apply this to research in the lab. She is interested in studying therapist factors (e.g., skillfulness) and the therapeutic alliance, specifically what impact does the therapist have on the alliance? Tori received her Bachelor's in Psychology from Winthrop University and is currently a M.A. student at The New School for Social Research.
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Jerzy Kaufmann
Jerzy is a member of the PSQ data team, as well as the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS) task and 3RS coding groups. He is currently interested in the identification of and response to withdrawal ruptures in psychotherapy. Jerzy received his BA in Psychology from Pitzer College, and is an MA student at The New School for Social Research.
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Chhavi Singhal
Chhavi is a masters student at The New School and an RA at The Brief. She is involved in patient/therapist intake and termination data and is part of the 3RS coding group. Before coming to The New School, she earned her BA in English literature from George Washington University, and worked as a research assistant for a medical research practice. Chhavi is interested in studying the therapeutic alliance and how it might apply to autism clinical research.
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Michi Scharf
Michi is a first year Psychology MA student at the New School and a member of the SASB coding team at the Brief. He received his BA in Philosophy and German from Connecticut College. His research interests include psychotherapy integration, somatic psychology and resilience.
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Grace Smith
Gracie is a MA student at the New School for Social Research with a B.A. in Communications and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also studied Fashion at Parsons and worked in the field before coming back to the New School for Psychology. She is a member of the SWAIO coding group at the Brief and is interested in studying attachment mechanisms within the therapeutic relationship.
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Greg Weil
Greg is a New School Master’s student and research assistant at the Brief. He is interested in studying therapist intervention behavior among different patient presentations. Within the lab, Greg is a member of the SASB and Adherence coding groups, as well as the PSQ data team. He has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the George Washington University.
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Fady Ibrahim
Fady is a first year Master's student at the New School for Social Research. He received his bachelor's degree in Psychology from The College of New Jersey. In the past Fady has worked in various labs which explored the role of language in psychotherapy, social facilitation, and romantic relationships respectively. He is currently interested in researching different aspects of the psychoanalytic process such as therapeutic alliance and therapist interpretations, and how these elements can vary between therapists, clients, and symptoms.
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Evan Henritze
Evan is interested in how contemplative ethical practice informs the clinical relationship in the psychotherapeutic and other caregiver contexts. He is currently a member of the CAMs coding group and is also conducting a study on compassion appraisal and ethical sensitivity. He serves as Director of Programming at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and is a masters student at the New School. He earned a B.A. in Film Studies and Social, Cultural and Critical Theory from Wesleyan University.
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Trevor Friedman
Trevor is a first-year M.A. student at The New School and a member of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills In-Session coding group at the Safran Lab. He is interested in studying emotional factors in the working alliance, therapeutic assessment, psychosis, and spirituality. He has worked in several psychology research labs and psychiatric clinics, and was previously the office manager at a neuropsychology evaluation center.
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Zeynep Guney
Zeynep is a first year Psychology MA student at the New School and a member of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS) task group. She received her BA in Psychology and Sociology and MA in Clinical Psychology from Istanbul Bilgi University. Previously, she studied on torture and trauma and worked with mass trauma survivors. She is interested in the practice and theory of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and therapist factors affecting therapeutic alliance and outcome.
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Kevin Rice
I am a first year Psychology MA student at the New School and a member of the CAMS coding team at the Brief. I received my BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Simpson College, and an MA in philosophy form University of Missouri St. Louis. I am interested in the phenomenology of intersubjectivity and empathy in the therapeutic alliance, psychotherapeutic integration, and the metrics of therapeutic efficacy/effectiveness.
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Jamie Gardella
Jamie is a first year Psychology MA student at The New School and a member of the CAMS coding group. She earned a BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame. Her volunteer experience as a peer counselor to the LGBTQIA community of NYC at Identity House led her to stray from the business world to clinical psychology. Her research interests include exploring therapists’ roles in ruptures and repairs (especially with clients who are members of underserved communities), measuring therapeutic effectiveness as client factors vary, and implicit bias.
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Undergraduate Students
Liam Bang |
Liam is fourth year BA student at The New School. He is pursuing a degree in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy and is a member of the Structured Analysis of Social Behavior coding group at the Safran lab. Liam is broadly interested in psychotherapy and intends to contribute to ongoing research in the lab.
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