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Dr. Melissa lathamPOST DOCTORAL VISITOR
Clinical Postdoctoral Fellowship — 2021 San Diego Veterans Affairs – San Diego, CA, USA Predoctoral Internship — 2020 San Diego Veterans Affairs – San Diego, CA, USA PhD – 2020 University of Oregon – Eugene, OR, USA |
Dr. Melissa Latham completed her PhD in 2020 at University of Oregon. She completed her internship and clinical postdoctoral fellowship at the San Diego VA, primarily treating military veterans for PTSD. Dr. Latham’s graduate research focused primarily on college student mental health. She has extensive experience developing and testing interventions, including interventions for couples, families, and students, and using in-person, remote, group, and digital platforms. In her dissertation project, she developed an app-based intervention to improve the sleep of college students. Dr. Latham is currently overseeing the TULiP Lab’s Feeling Connected Study, a study focused on learning about helpful and unhelpful communication styles between suicidal or self-injuring individuals and their partners. In addition to her contributions to intervention research, Dr. Latham is a licensed psychologist in California and currently in supervised practice in Ontario. She is passionate about delivering evidence-based mental health treatment and has a strong interest in clinical training.