Kelly is a rising third-year in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at American University in Washington, D.C. She completed her BS in Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University in 2019 and gained valuable post-bacc experience as a counselor and clinical research assistant at a residential DBT program at the McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Kelly's research interests currently center around BPD and the interaction of underlying constructs such as identity disturbance, emotion dysregulation, and non-suicidal self-injury (NSS) in predicting interpersonal functioning in young-adult populations. She is interested in investigating daily life outcomes and the maintenance of close-relationships through use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) as well as the examination of physiological correlates. Kelly is grateful for the mentorship she received while applying to graduate school and is so excited to help others navigate the process!