People
Thomas Rodebaugh
Professor
Director of Clinical Training
Director of Clinical Training
219 Somers Family Hall
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Professor Rodebaugh is a clinical psychologist with a focus on anxiety disorders in adults, particularly generalized social anxiety disorder. However, much of his current work focuses on bothersome tinnitus and the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for that issue. He is also interested in treatment outcome and process more generally. Dr. Rodebaugh has recently focused on intensive longitudinal data and methods of modeling processes in individuals. He has over one hundred peer-reviewed publications. His research has focused on assessment, treatment, cognitive factors (e.g., attention bias), interpersonal processes, friendship, loneliness, and the enhancement of exposure treatment across the anxiety disorders. He has a long-standing interest in the selection of appropriate statistical models (e.g., structural equation models; item response theory models; network models; idiographic models) for evaluating measures and testing hypotheses. Dr. Rodebaugh’s primary clinical focus is on supervising graduate students who provide psychotherapy at the department’s Psychological Services Center. Dr. Rodebaugh provides supervision in cognitive behavioral therapy and other empirically supported treatments. He is also the Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Program. Outside of work, Dr. Rodebaugh also plays the guitar and gardens. Both badly.
Madelyn Frumkin, M.A.
Graduate Student
Madelyn Frumkin (B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) entered graduate school in August, 2017. Before joining the Anxiety and Psychotherapy Laboratory, she spent two years working as a research coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders. Her primary project at MGH was an NIH-funded study comparing the efficacy of Kundalini yoga to Cognitive Behavior Therapy for individuals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Currently, Madelyn is interested in the construct of emotional or psychological pain, especially as it relates to the co-occurence of anxiety disorders, depression, and chronic pain. She is also interested in using ecological momentary assessment tools to examine how the experience of physical pain interacts with emotional and psychological symptoms over time. In her spare time, Madelyn enjoys the great outdoors, cooking, and sitcoms.
Jason Grossman, B.S.
Graduate Student
Jason Grossman (B.S., University of California, San Diego) entered graduate school in August, 2017. Before joining the Anxiety and Psychotherapy Laboratory, he spent seven years working as a staff research associate with the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. While there, he worked on a number of studies involving criminal justice, cannabis cessation, and anxiety with comorbid substance use. Jason is interested in medication-enhanced treatment for social anxiety, examining the role of fear of positive evaluation in social situations, and the ways in which rumination interacts with anxiety broadly. He is also interested in utilizing ecological momentary assessment (EMA) paradigms focused around observable and intervenable traits of anxiety in natural settings. In his spare time, Jason enjoys hiking, cycling, and playing games of all sorts.
Marilyn L. Piccirillo, M.A.
Graduate Student
Marilyn Piccirillo (B.A., Washington University in St. Louis; M.A., Temple University) entered graduate school in August 2013. Her research focuses on social anxiety disorder and comorbid disorders, especially depression. She is currently interested in how person-centered statistical methods can be used in conjunction with smartphone technology to model individual-level psychological processes and how these models could guide psychological assessment and treatment. She is particularly interested in understanding how patients and providers respond to person-centered methods and how these methods can be used to extend access to mental healthcare. In her free time, Marilyn loves traveling, finding the best speciality coffee, and spending time with her two cats.
She is completing her clinical internship at the Seattle VA, Puget Sound Healthcare System for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Jin Shin, B.A.
Graduate Student
Jin Shin joined the Anxiety and Psychotherapy Laboratory in August 2019. After she graduated from Dartmouth College in 2017 with a B.A in Neuroscience, she spent two years working as a research coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital OCD and Related Disorders Program. Her primary projects at MGH included a study that examined the neural mechanisms of fear extinction in patients with OCD that were undergoing CBT, and a study that assessed the efficacy of fMRI-guided TMS for individuals with OCD. Currently, Jin is interested in understanding cognitive factors and mechanisms that maintain meaningful change in anxiety disorders. She is also interested in the use of fMRI techniques and ecological momentary assessment tools to create network and idiographic models and predict individual response to treatment. In her free time, Jin enjoys hiking, pottery, and finding new places to eat brunch.
Natasha Tonge, M.A.
Graduate Student
Natasha Tonge (B.A., Swarthmore college; M.A., Washington University in St. Louis) entered graduate school in August, 2013. Before joining the Anxiety and Psychotherapy Laboratory, she spent two years working as a research assistant with the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. While there, she primarily worked on studies using computer-based behavioral measures, eye-tracking and self-report measures to quantify individual differences in social motivation. Currently, Natasha is interested in using EMA (ecological momentary assessment) tools to measure how anxious traits change over time, and she is also interested in studying social impairment across psychological disorders. In her spare time she enjoys reading, illustration, video games, board games and fencing.
She is completing her clinical internship at the Minneapolis VA for the 2019-2020 academic year.