I am a recent graduate from the University of Waterloo and am passionate by research in the field of mental health and human behaviour!I completed my Honours Thesis, supervised by gambling researcher Dr. Mike Dixon, where I investigated the effects of deep breathing on mood and anxiety measures. I currently work as a research assistant in several Clinical Psychology labs namely in Dr. Allison Kelly’s Self-Attitudes Lab where I am investigating the effects of self-compassion on shame and self-criticism, as well as in Dr. Tara McAuley’s Child And Adult Neuropsychology Lab which focuses on depressive and attentional disorders. I am working under the supervision of a grad student who is doing research into the relationship between maternal and childhood depressive symptoms. I also work in Dr. Dixon’s Gambling Lab, where we are finishing up a project looking into the effects of Wordle goal gradients on physiology and subjective arousal/mood in order to replicate findings found in slot machine problem gamblers. I hope to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology, and will be applying for the 2025 incoming year.