Dr. Nicole Mahrer
Associate Professor, Psychology
Nicole E. Mahrer received a PhD in clinical psychology at Arizona State University in 2015. She completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, followed by a research postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current interests are in the areas of child psychology, health psychology, culture, and prevention. Her research focuses on understanding the risk and protective factors that predict physical health and mental health functioning in ethnically and culturally-diverse children, adolescents, and young adults. She also does work in pediatric hospital settings, seeking to understand the interplay between physical and mental health symptoms in youth, and to better integrate mental health services into traditional medical settings.
Mahrer hopes to develop culturally-informed, evidence-based preventative interventions that can be delivered within an integrated healthcare setting, in order to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes for underserved youth and their families. She is a licensed psychologist and teaches courses in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, supervision, assessment, and statistics.
Mahrer has worked primarily with underserved children and families with co-occurring physical and mental health concerns, delivering therapeutic services in both English and Spanish. Her integrated treatment approach incorporates the family and draws from evidence-based cognitive behavioral and third-wave approaches (i.e. mindfulness, acceptance, and commitment therapy) to reduce distress and improve quality of life. She has experience conducting psychodiagnostic, psychoeducational, and neuropsychological assessments with both children and adults.