Educational and Psychological Studies Department

Biography

Marisol Meyer is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She graduated from Dartmouth College, earning honors for bachelor’s degrees in psychology and anthropology. During her time as a doctoral student, she has been a proud member of the Challenging Racism and Empowering Communities through Ethnocultural Research (CRECER) lab in which she conducts research related to community-based, culturally responsive mental health interventions. She is so excited to be joining the CEWRC to continue this work! Marisol's research interests specifically focus on how unique community strengths and evidence-informed/evidence-based practice can be coalesced and leveraged to promote psychological wellness. Marisol has coordinated and co-designed interventions and curricula addressing community-selected topics such as trauma-informed mental health support, emotion socialization, and ethnic racial identity development. These programs have reached community-leaders, teachers, healthcare professionals, caregivers, and youth. Relatedly, Marisol’s clinical work has focused on the implementation of culturally responsive, empirically-based intervention with ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse clients in community-based mental health centers, academic health centers, and forensic settings. Currently, she is working on an exciting project through the CEWRC to develop a professional development training