Class of 2020

Lindsey Collins, PhD | Child Psychology Intern

Lindsey is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology with a minor in Statistics from Miami University of Ohio. In graduate school, Lindsey has conducted research on childhood risk for OCD and patterns of symptom reduction in exposure therapy for OCD. Broadly, her clinical interests include cognitive-behavioral and family-based interventions for youth and their families. She is very excited to continue her clinical training in the Child/Adolescent track at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Psychology Internship. In her free time, Lindsey loves to sing, play tennis, attend live theater performances, and explore local restaurants. Lindsey completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Binghamton University (SUNY) in Upstate NY.

Erin Hanks-Moehr, PhD | General Mental Health Psychology Intern

Erin earned her undergraduate degrees in English Literature and Psychology, and a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northern Arizona University (NAU). She completed her PhD in NAU’s Combined Counseling/School Psychology program. Erin’s experience has included working in multiple settings across rural Northern Arizona such as; community mental health programs/organizations, domestic violence shelters, hospitals, and providing psycho-education/assessment services to communities on the reservation.  She has been involved in many research efforts, including topics of friendships and relationships, narrative therapy, and counselor/psychologist resilience and well-being training in graduate programs. She is currently working on her dissertation, which explores the counseling supervision relationship in a cross-cultural context.  Erin continues to have evolving interests in assessment, severe mental illness, supervision, integrated care, and advocacy.  She remains passionate about helping her community; through her work in the Social Justice Action Committee, she has been involved in multiple projects, such as rural women’s health awareness/supplies, training in politics and psychology, supporting hospitalized children, and suicide prevention efforts. She is a native of Flagstaff, Arizona and in her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, hiking, reading, painting, playing piano, and caring for her animals.

Maria Alicia Nuñez, PhD | General Mental Health Psychology Intern

Alicia is from San Diego, California. As part of her studies at San Diego State University, she completed a double major in Psychology and Spanish and earned a Master's of Public Health degree with an emphasis in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. Alicia completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Alicia does research in Clinical Health Psychology, Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology, and Health Disparities. Regarding clinical practice, Alicia is interested in providing psychological services to clinically, linguistically, and culturally diverse patients. Through her work, she aims to expand understanding of how biopsychosocial factors affect psychiatric morbidity and health. In addition to conducting scholarly activities and providing psychological services, Alicia enjoys having an active healthy lifestyle, spending time with her loved ones, and traveling.

Erik Wing, PhD | General Mental Health Psychology Intern

Erik grew up in Bloomington, MN, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed his PhD in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Kansas. His graduate research focused on mechanisms of and interventions targeting emotion dysregulation. Projects included an fMRI investigation of tDCS facilitated cognitive reappraisal in MDD individuals, as well as his dissertation, an empirical separation of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in the determination of affective dynamics. Erik has a passion for neuroscience both in methodology and instruction; he taught several undergraduate neuroscience courses at KU and developed the Clinical Neuroscience offering for KU’s online college. Erik concentrated his clinical training on SMI populations, providing assessment and therapeutic services in the inpatient psychiatry unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center.