Current 1st Year MAPS Students
Clinical Counseling
Samantha Benzing
Jake Christenson
Claire Clifton
Joe Davidson
Kelsey Dietrich
Marissa Marsolek
Experimental
Jacinda Gardner
Julia Record
Emily Schulz
Industrial-Organizational
Sebastian Banuelos
Jessica Cole
Kalei Kleive
Mariah McDonough
Katherine Sanchez
Carlie Servais
Current 2nd Year MAPS Students
Clinical Counseling
Michelle Jecha
Dakota Leget - Plan B: "Self-Determination Theory as a Framework for an Early Model
of Internalized Weight Bias"
Chad Lipka
Grace Pegel - Plan B: "The Effects of Matching Process Rationale with Client Preferences and
Expectations on Client Perceptions"
Madi Ulrich
Linda Zheng - Plan B: "Children Receiving Services at a Community Child Advocacy Center:
A Mixed-Method Examination of Early Maladaptive Schemas and Coping Responses"
Experimental
Ashley Baumann - Plan B: "Estrogen's Influence in Discrimination and Conditioned Inhibition:
PTSD Implications"
Brieanna Muzzy - Plan B: "The Influence of Primed Romantic Attachment on Attitudes Toward
Consensual Non-Monogamy with a Mediating Role Of Romantic Jealousy"
Hannah Pannell
Michelle Perpich
Mariah Ravet - Plan B: "Substance Use and Retrospective Adverse Childhood Experiences:
An Ambulatory Assessment of Cortisol Awakening Response"
Industrial-Organizational
Jay Burditt
Claire Theisen - Plan B: "The Impact of Gender Emotional Expression Stereotypes
on Leader Evaluations"
Bethany Westerberg - Plan B: "Leadership Style Preferences: A Study of Gender and Personality"
Class of 2021 Graduates
Clinical Counseling
Hannah Appleseth - Plan B: "Motivational Goals, Needs, and Passion for Graduate Education: A Longitudinal Examination of the Prediction of Academic Burnout, Well-being, and Health"
Hannah is currently interning at the Duluth Family Medicine Clinic.
Emily Jansen - Plan B: "The Effect of Go/No-Go Training Dosage on Weight Loss, Food Evaluation, and Disinhibition in Overweight and Obese Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial"
Emily is currently interning at MAP Behavioral Health Clinic.
Kimberly Knourek - Plan B: "Barriers to Mental Health Services for Children in Low-Income, Racial-Ethnic Minority Families"
Kimberly is currently interning at the Human Development Center in Duluth, Minnestoa.
Elaine Marshall - Plan B: "Examination of the Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions on the Wellbeing of Caregivers of Older Adults: A Proposed Meta-Analysis"
Elaine is currently interning at Essential Medical Center, Health Psychology program in Duluth, Minnesota.
Kelly McKnight - Plan B: "Experimental Manipulation of Mood States on Judgements of the Working Alliance and Alliance Ruptures"
Kelly is currently interning at MAPS Behavioral Health in Duluth, Minnesota.
Megan Sundstrom - Plan B: "The Effects of Adaptive Yoga and Sports Programs on Psychological Wellbeing in Individuals with Disabilities"
Megan is currently interning at the Human Development Center in Duluth, Minnesota.
Experimental
Ryan St. Clair - Plan B: "Understanding the Relationship Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Impulsivity and Attention Bias"
Linlu Sun - Plan B: "Musical Training and Improved Cognitive Skills"
Industrial-Organizational
Abby Imholte - Plan B: "The Moderating Role of Social Support on the Relationship Between Surface Acting and Burnout:
Georgia Jay - Plan B: "Examining the Relationship Between Work Demands and Burnout During COVID-19 and the Moderating Effects of Professional Social Support and Psychological Flexibility"
Rebecca Lindgren - Plan B: "Fairness Perceptions and Reciprocity of Backup Behavior and the Effects on Individual Perceptions of Team Viability, Team Cohesion, and Self-Efficacy"
Class of 2020 Graduates
Clinical Counseling
Erika Damsgard - Plan B: "An Experimental Examination of Misconception Corrections Across Domains and Potential Backfire Effect"
Erika accepted a position at her former internship site as a mental health provider at MAP Behavioral Health in Duluth, Minnesota.
Emma Deihl - Plan B: "The Blame Game: Reducing Blame Placed on Gender Diverse Victims of HIV through the Experimental Manipulation of Perspective Taking"
Emma is currently working as a therapist at Rogers Behavioral Health in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Urvashi Dixit - Plan B: "Eating Regulation Within the Context of Self-Determination Theory"
Urvashi accepted a position as a mental health provider at MAP Behavioral Health in Duluth, Minnesota.
Jeremy Jamieson - Plan B: "Development and Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Trauma-Related Blame Scale"
Jeremy accepted a position at his former internship site as a Mental Health Therapist at the Moose Lake Correctional Facility in Moose Lake, Minnesota.
Katelyn Melcher
Katelyn accepted a position as Clinical Research Coordinator with the Mayo Clinic Psychiatry and Psychology Department.
Summer Nielsen - Plan B: "Childhood Anxiety and Caregiver Strain"
Summer is currently a therapist at CHI Immanuel’s Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility.
Experimental
Imane Ait Daoud - Plan B: "The Effect of Stress Susceptibility on the Relationship Between Attachment and Internet Gaming"
Imani is enrolled in a graduate program for psychological assessment at Concordia University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is applying for the Ph.D. program at Concordia University.
Erich Eberhardt - Plan B: "The Effect of Video Game Use on Attentional Bias of Gaming Related Imagery"
Jim Hasselbrink - Plan B: "The Habituation of Evoked Potentials in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder"
Colleen Switt - Plan B: "Strengthening Psychological Knowledge and Critical Thinking Skills in General Psychology"
Industrial-Organizational
Kwesi Adjei - Plan B: "Examining the Relationship between Diversity Climate, Psychological Safety, and Occupational Self-Efficacy"
Kwesi is currently a Ph.D. student at The University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign.
James Clairmont - Plan B: "Work/Family Conflict and Work Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Autonomy, Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors, and Family Hours"
Amanda DeLongchamp - Plan B: "Crafting Employee Work-Life Balance"
Amanda is currently working as a Human Resource Consultant at Amy Cell Talent in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Jie Yu - Plan B: "Abusive Supervision and Burnout: The Moderating Role of Subordinates’ Neuroticism and Time Spent with the Supervisors"
Susan Zinno - Plan B: "#MeToo: Gender Differences in Outcomes of Sexual Harassment at Work"
Susan is currently working as a Training Coordinator in Kansas City.
Previous MAPS Students
Class of 2019
Clinical Counseling
Riley Berg is a Therapist at the Trauma Recovery Partial Hospitalization Program, Rogers Behavioral Health.
Erik Dahl is working at Community Mental Health Center, Portland, Oregon.
Aliaksandr Kachan accepted a position as Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Trainee Alltyr Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Hannah McCarthy - Plan B: "An Investigation of the Effects of an Intuitive Eating Intervention with University Employees: A Randomized Clinical Trial"
Hannah is currently working with Headway Mental Health, Twin Cities, Minnesota.
Experimental
Carissa Harvey - Plan B: "The 'Sextual' Double Standard: An Experimental Examination of Variations in Judgments of Men and Women Who Engage in Computer-Mediated Sexual Communication"
Carissa Harvey is a Community Education Program Manager at Partners for Peace, Bangor, Maine. She is in the Ph.D. program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Rogers - Plan B: "How Malleable Are Beliefs about Traits? Self-Theories About Traits as Motivated Reasoning After Reliving a Negative Self-Conscious Emotion"
Industrial-Organizational
Lauren Brown - Plan B: "Intervening When Ostracism Occurs: Individual Differences and Psychological Safety as Predictors"
Dallas Capesius - Plan B: "Empathetic Expression as a Job Requirement: Empathy as a Moderator of Emotional Labor and Health Outcomes in Employees"
Dallas is currently working as a Research Analyst at Middle Market and Digital Business Banking at Barlow Research Associates in Minneapolis.
Maggie Gauer - Plan B: "Females Leading Like Males: When Agentic Female Leaders Perceive Sex-Based Mistreatment"
Dayan Maas - Plan B: "Evaluating the Effects of an Intervention to Increase Feedback as a Social Job Resource"
Dayan is currently working as a Statistical Research Analyst at Hiebing.
Class of 2018
Clinical Counseling
Josephine Abate
After graduation, Josephine joined the Adolescent Depression Research Lab at Twin Cities doing clinical assessments for a study examining self-injurious behavior in adolescent girls. She now also works as a research coordinator in the Vinogradov Lab on a research project investigating perinatal mental health and cognitive functioning.
Eden Broberg - Plan B: "Psychopathic Personality Traits, Attention, Emotion, and Disinhibition: An ERP Study of the Differential Correlates in the Two-Process Theory"
Following her internship at Birchtree Center, Eden accepted a position there. She is currently a Psychotherapist and Program Assistant at the Emily Program.
Brooke Collins
Following graduation, Brooke accepted a position at Arrowhead Psychological Clinic and is working towards her LPCC.
Amy Maslowski - Plan B: "Examination of the Effectiveness of Mental Health First Aid Among the Public: A Meta-Analysis"
Amy is currently attending a Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology at the University of North Dakota.
Natalie Slaughter - Plan B: "A Medical School Educational Intervention to Prevent and Reduce Blaming Trauma Patients"
Following graduation, Natalie moved to the Twin Cities and accepted a position at Pathfinder.
Experimental
Samuel Birkholz - Plan B: "Influences of Affective Stimulus and Placement of Procedural Task Learning and Performance"
Sam is currently attending a Ph.D. program at North Dakota State University in Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Melinda Dertinger - Plan B: "Using Counter-Stereotypical Exemplars as an Intervention to Reduce Implicit Gender Stereotypes: An Application of Gender Schema Theory"
Melinda is working as a researcher on the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team.
Dustyn Leff - Plan B: "Attentional Bias to Online Video Gaming Images Using Eye Tracking Technology"
Following graduation, he was employed as an instructor in the Psychology Department at the University of MN Duluth. He is currently attending medical school at the University of Minnesota.
Philip Peper - Plan B: "Associated Correlates of Social Comparison Threat to Working Memory Capacity"
Phil is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Texas-Arlington.
Industrial-Organizational
Jean Dougherty - Plan B: "The Effects of Feedback-Seeking Behavior and Difficult Goals on Task Performance and Task-Induced Stress"
Jean is currently employed as a Council Associate with the Colorado Workforce Development Council.
Allison Haley - Plan B: "Applicant Reactions to Performance Review Systems: Examining the Effects of Generational Differences and Personality Traits"
Allison is currently the a Talent Pipeline Analyst shared between the Colorado Workforce Development Council (CWDC) and the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE).
David Huntley - Plan B: "The Effects of Working at Home During COVID-19 on Sedentary Behavior, Use of Strategies to Decrease Sedentary Behavior, and Perceived Work Performance"
David is currently working as a Research Analyst with Barlow Research Associates.
Katherine Klein - Plan B: "The Impact of Origin of Performance Goals on Task Performance and Stress"
Kate is currently attending a Ph.D. program in Industrial Organizational Psychology at Central Michigan University.
Harry Kohn - Plan B: "Examining the Relationship Between Psychological Ownership and Knowledge Sharing"
Class of 2017
Clinical Counseling
Sara Anderson - Plan B: "Binge Drinking, Binge Internet Gaming, and Binge Streaming: Common and Specific Impulsive Trait Correlates"
Sara is currently employed at Touchstone Mental Health as an IRTS/Crisis Program Team Leader.
Katie Axford
Following graduation, Katie was employed as an instructor in the Psychology Department at the University of MN Duluth. She is now currently attending a Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology at the University of Utah.
Claire Guidinger - Plan B: "Appetite Awareness Training as a Weight Gain Prevention Intervention for Young Adult Women: A Randomized Control Trial"
Claire is currently attending a Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology at the University of Oregon.
Sean Hushagen
Following graduation, Sean accepted a position as a school psychologist in the Duluth School District. He currently works as a Psychometrist for a neuropsychological clinic based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rachel Johnson - Plan B: "Stress Reactivity Among LGBT+ Participants Associated with Microaggression Experiences"
Following graduation, Rachel accepted a position as a Behavioral Researcher at the Center for Health Promotion, National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.
Experimental
Kaitlyn Moriarty - Plan B: "Effects of Acute Psychosocial Stress on Self-Reported Wanting and Liking for High Calorie Foods: Role of Body Mass Index"
Industrial-Organizational
Clair Anderson - Plan B: "The Effects of Coloring and Mindful Audio Work Recovery Techniques on Task Performance, Boredom and Job Satisfaction"
Clair is currently a Public Assistance Instructional Designer for the State of Colorado's Department of Health Care Policy and Finance Staff Development Center.
Brandon Breuer - Plan B: "A Thematic Analysis of Workplace Health Program Participation"
Brandon is currently working as an Individual Consultant (Contract) at ChangePartner, Inc.
Lauren Engelhart - Plan B: "The Dark Triad as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Overqualification, Counterproductive Work Behaviors, and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors"
Lauren is currently employed as a Business Process Consultant at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Michael Unzen - Plan B: "Social Networking Sites in Applicant Screening: Attitudes Toward Filtered Profiles"
Michael is currently employed as an Organizational Change Analyst at 3M.
Jared Vincent - Plan B: "The Effects of Leadership on Performance and Satisfaction Across Virtual Communication Media"
Following graduation, Jared was hired as a Stop Loss Support Coordinator at Voya Financial.
Class of 2016
Clinical Counseling
Laura Holmberg - Plan B: "Relationships Between Binge Drinking and Binge Eating with Facets of Impulsivity, Reinforcement Sensitivity, and Attentional Bias"
Kyle Johannessen
Kyle is currently a Therapist with Woodland Hills, working toward his LPCC.
Hannah Lammert - Plan B: “'The Freshman Fifteen' and Beyond: A Meta-Analysis"
Hannah is currently attending Pacific University in their Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program, health track.
Lauren Vieaux - Plan B: "A Brief Appetite Awareness Intervention for Eating and Weight Regulation Among College Freshmen: A Randomized Clinical Trial"
Lauren is currently working with Headway Emotional Health Services as a Mental Health Therapist in a co-located school-based therapy program.
Experimental
Nathan Young - Plan B: "Impulsivity and Risky Decision-Making"
After graduation, Nathan completed the Experimental Psychology Ph.D. program at DePaul University, graduating in May, 2021. He accepted a position as a Behavioral Research Scientists with Fidelity Investments.
Industrial-Organizational
Matt Daly - Plan B: "Stepping Up UMD Group Health Coaching: A Behavioral Intervention"
Matt is currently employed as a Human Capitalist Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, LLP.
Areanna Lakowske - Plan B: "The Influence of Feedback Sequence and a Challenging Goal on Task Performance"
Areanna is currently employed as a Patient Experience Coordinator at Prevea Health.
Kenzie Raboin - Plan B: "Reactions to a Continuous Feedback Intervention in a Software Company"
After graduation, Kenzie accepted a position as Human Resources Generalist with International Decision Systems (IDS). She was later promoted to Global Human Resources Manager.
Alison Shrift - Plan B: "Job Hopping Motives: An Extension of the Unfolding Model of Voluntary Employee Turnover"
Alison currently works as a Statistical Analyst II for the State of Colorado, Colorado Department of Corrections, and the Office of Planning & Analysis.
Mike Ward - Plan B: "Effects of Framing and Timing on Realistic Job Previews"
After graduation, Mike accepted a position as an HR Coordinator for Casper Construction in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Jessa Youso - Plan B: "Workgroup Emotional Climate: Individual Inputs and Group Cohesion"
Jessa is currently working as a Senior Consultant with Educe Group.