Principal Investigator
Dr. Anna Lau is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology.
Graduate Students
Meet the team that powers the CARE in Youth Mental Health Lab.
Postdoctoral Fellows & Visiting Assistant Research Professors
Lab Coordinators
Lab Alumni
Former Graduate Students
- Omar Gudiño, Ph.D. 2009, Deputy Clinical Director, Child Mind Institute
- Lisa L. Liu, Ph.D. 2010, Assistant Professor, Alliant International University
- Shu-wen Wang, Ph.D. 2012, Associate Professor, Haverford College
- Joey J. Fung, Ph.D. 2012, Professor, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
- Jonathan Martinez, Ph.D. 2013, Associate Professor, California State University Northridge
- Jennifer Y. Louie, Ph.D. 2013, Psychologist, Child MIND Institute
- Heejung Park, Ph.D. 2014, Associate Professor, Scripps College
- Lorinda Ho, Ph.D. 2014, Psychologist, San Francisco Forensic Institute
- William Tsai, Ph.D. 2016, Assistant Professor, New York University
- Sisi Guo, Ph.D. 2017, Director, UCLA OCD Intensive Outpatient Program
- Michael Sun, Ph.D. 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
- Joanna Kim, Ph.D. 2019, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
- Resham Gellatly, Ph.D. 2021, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
- Blanche Wright, Ph.D. 2022, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
- Tamar Kodish, Ph.D. 2022, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
- Dana Saifan, Ph.D. 2022, Assistant Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
- Giovanni Ramos, Ph.D., 2023, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Stephanie Yu, Ph.D. 2024, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
- Y. Vivian Byeon, Ph.D. 2025, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
- Hannah Nguyen, Ph.D., 2013-2015, Associate Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills
- Miya Barnett, Ph.D., 2014-2016, Professor & Director of Clinical Training, UC Santa Barbara
- Jennifer Regan, Ph.D., 2014-2016, Director Clinical Quality and Training, Brightline
- Nicole Stadnick, Ph.D., 2014-2016, Professor, UC San Diego
- Adriana Rodriguez, Ph.D., 2016-2018, Senior Clinical Training Manager, DMH+UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence
- Ashley Smith, Ph.D., 2017-2018, UX Researcher at Google via Akorbi
- Teresa Lind, Ph.D., 2017-2020, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
- Joyce Lui, Ph.D., 2018-2020, Assistant Professor, Concordia University
- Jacqueline Kim, Ph.D., 2018-2020, Assistant Professor In Residence, University of California Irvine School of Medicine
- Jasper Estabillo, Ph.D., 2019-2021, Training Director, UCLA Tarjan Center
- Julia Revillion Cox, Ph.D., 2019-2022, Assistant Clinical Director, UCLA Child OCD, Anxiety & Tic Disorders Clinic.
- Sylvanna Vargas, Ph.D., 2020-2023, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University Department of Psychology
- Prerna Martin, Ph.D., 2021-2024, Research Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
- Alejandra Arce, Ph.D., 2022-2024, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Former Lab Coordinators
- Annie Tao (UC Berkeley, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Daisy Tsao (Morehouse School of Medicine)
- Alison Hu (University of Minnesota, Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Julie Nguyen (University of Minnesota, Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Dana Saifan (UCLA, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Juan Carlos Gonzalez (UC Santa Barbara, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Chanel Zhan (Duke University of School of Medicine)
- Christopher Gomez (University of Kansas, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Morgan Crawley (Texas Christian University, Social Work, M.S.W. program)
- Kenny Le (University of South Florida, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Casandra Gomez Alvarado (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Carolina Lechunga (University of California, Santa Barbara, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Ashley Flores (UCLA, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program)
- Jocelyn Cruz (California State University Los Angeles, Social Work, M.S.W. program)