Brief Online Interventions for LGBTQ Young Adult Mental and Behavioral Health

John E. Pachankis, PhD

Dr. Pachankis (he/him) is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health and directs Yale’s LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative, which serves as a home for scholarship devoted to understanding and improving the mental health of LGBTQ populations in the US and around the world. His NIH-funded research program examines the efficacy of LGBTQ-affirmative mental health interventions delivered via novel technologies, in diverse settings, and across the spectrum of the LGBTQ community. These treatments have shown often-times strong and sustained reductions in depression, anxiety, suicidality, substance use, and HIV risk across several randomized controlled trials. He has published 100+ scientific papers on LGBTQ mental health and stigma and recently co-edited the Handbook of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities published by Oxford University Press. You can learn more about his research at https://medicine.yale.edu/lgbtqmentalhealth/

Stacey L. Williams, PhD

Dr. Williams trained as a social-health psychologist and has have developed a research program in stigma, sociocultural factors, and health. Her current studies focus on sexual and gender minority stress and health in LGBTQ individuals in South Central Appalachia. She directs the Social Issues and Relations Laboratory (SIRL), where undergraduate and graduate students gain first-hand experience in designing and conducting studies on stigma, minority stress, campus climate, and psychosocial processes that link stigma to health and mental health. Her work has been published in multiple peer reviewed journals.

Kriti Behari, MA

Ms. Behari (she/her) is senior research assistant with the ESTEEM Project. She graduated with an MA from Stony Brook University in 2018. She is interested in the development and maintenance of depressive disorders, as well as in psychotherapy interventions and their adaptation, implementation and personalization. Kriti hopes to get her PhD in Clinical Psychology. She has had her work published in multiple peer reviewed journals.

Paul Pawlicki, PsyD, LP

Paul Pawlicki, PsyD, received his degree in clinical psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, IL, in 2005. From 2004-2006, he taught courses in general psychology, abnormal psychology, and human sexuality at Collin College in Plano, TX. He currently practices individual therapy at the Department of Sexual Medicine at Park Nicollet Health Health Services near Minneapolis, MN.