Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student
Long Island University - Brooklyn
Audrey Mason is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University – Brooklyn. She takes a psychodynamic approach and focuses on the impact of childhood trauma on adult functioning. Audrey is a member of the Haden Lab at LIU, which focuses on complex trauma, sociocultural factors, and emotional outcomes. Audrey worked as Project Coordinator on a study that completed data collection last spring, and she is currently writing a manuscript on the findings. Clinically, she is a psychology extern on a dual-diagnosis inpatient unit.
Before beginning at LIU, Audrey taught preschool through Teach for America and concurrently completed a Master’s in Teaching, focusing on Early Childhood Education. This work solidified her research interest in childhood events, as she firsthand witnessed the impact of various social, generational, and financial factors on preschoolers’ emotion and cognition. Her first year at LIU, Audrey and her supervisor ran a social support group for children, resulting in a research poster at the International School Psychology Association conference to bring the success of the group to a wider audience.
Since then, Audrey’s interests have shifted toward adults, bringing an understanding of child development to her ongoing clinical and research work. At the APA Division 39 conference, she presented a poster on the effects of parental overprotection in childhood on adult interpersonal problems, taking into account the impact of ethnicity and cultural differences. Her dissertation plans to focus on complex trauma, early attachment experiences, and current functioning. Audrey’s research is continuously inspired by her clinical work, and vice versa.
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Witnessing Childhood Trauma and Impulse Control: The Crucial Role of Dissociation
Friday, March 14, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM US Eastern Time
