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Tune in to our conversation with Andrea, a third-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology based in Chicago, about her path to grad school with a background in social work and what her day-to-day life looks like. Andrea also breaks down how she structured her career according to her long-term goals, and why she chose to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Finally, the three of us di

A few months later, we are back! Kat and I have been busy with grad school, but we finally sat down and recorded an episode in light of recent events, specifically the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In this episode, we talk about how we have been dealing with the current news cycle, how we try to navigate the terrains of 2022, and how we experience these events as 20-something grad st

Tune in to our conversation with Cas, the host of Clinically Psyched Pod (a podcast about the hidden curriculum of grad admissions to Clinical Psychology programs), where she talks about her interests and knowledge in Sexual Psychology! We also discuss her ongoing journey to grad school and share our own experiences and difficulties in our respective applications cycles. Shows ment

Keywords: PhD experiences, productivity tips Tune in as we share how our first year of PhD program is going and went, what we have been up to, where our focuses are! We also talk about how we organize and manage our research life, finding a work-life balance, and how we establish a support systems. This episode also includes our productivity tips and other techniques that we have t

Keywords: Chronic pain, fibromyalgia, traumatic life experiences, career path Tune in for our conversation with Ariane, a PhD student at the University of Manchester whose project aims to develop diagnostic tool for chronic pain treatment in clinical settings using Bayesian models. We talk about her career trajectory and her experience in her PhD so far, as well as what it means to

Keywords: Autism, consciousness, connectivity, development, cognition Tune in to an episode with Dr. Lucina Uddin, head of the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab situated at the University of Miami, where we learn about her career trajectory and thoughts on autism and cognitive flexibility.  Taken from her lab website, they are broadly focused on investigating the relationsh

Keywords: race, ethicity, mental health services, intervention Tune in to an episode with Tasfia, a graduate student at Emory University and research coordinator at Harvard University. We dive into her undergraduate Honors Thesis on cultural tailoring in mental health services specific to race and ethnicity, where she engages in qualitative research and develops her own codebook. S

Keywords: career, work-life balance, decision fatigue  Tune in to our chat with Simone, where she tells us about her career path, thoughts on work-life balance, and offers candid advice to graduate students on the importance of finding focus. Simone is an Experimental Social Psychologist at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a fellow at Jesus College. In this episo

Keywords: career path, addiction Tune in for a conversation with Ara, an incoming Clinical Psych PhD student at the University of Rhode Island this fall, where she talks about her career path to date and experience with addiction research. We also discuss the future of research in Clinical Psych using virtual reality and psychedelics. Ara is also a co-founder of Psychin' Out, a Sla

Keywords: career path, grad apps, programming struggles Thinking of grad school? Join us for a special episode (rant) with Emily Turner for a candid talk of the good, the bad, and the ugly on her grad school quest without a psych background, where we also discuss the barriers in academia as grassroots researchers! Resources mentioned: Psychin'Out (Twitter, Slack), OpenAcademics, "W