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Anne Stevens, Ph.D.

Dr. Stevens was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2020-2021. She is now a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming. Her research focuses on implementing evidence-based assessment and interventions with adolescents and emerging adults with ADHD and related difficulties. Anne concentrates on adolescent and college student mental health, access to mental health services, the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood, college adjustment, parental involvement, the parent-child relationship, and sex, age, and ethnicity differences in developmental psychopathology.  

 
 

Ariela Kaiser, Ph.D.

Ari graduated from the Clinical Psychology program at UIC in 2024. Prior to her time at UIC, she received her bachelor’s in Psychological & Brain Sciences and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. Following graduation, she completed a post-baccalaureate IRTA fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying reward processing in adolescent depression in Dr. Argyris Stringaris’s Mood, Brain, and Development Unit. Ari’s research interests center on developing innovative, scalable, and cost-effective prevention and intervention programs for youths with and at high risk for depression. Ari completed her internship at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Consultation/Liaison Services at Lurie Children’s Hospital.

 
 

Nellie Shippen, Ph.D.

Nellie graduated from the Clinical Psychology program at UIC in 2025. Before her training at UIC, she graduated with a BS in Psychology as well as a MA in Clinical Developmental Health and Psychology from Tufts University. Nellie also worked as a research coordinator at Boston Medical Center (BMC) where she conducted research studies with youth and adults through the Department of Psychiatry, developed peer to peer mental health programs, and conducted assessments with young adults in the BMC Wellness and Recovery After Psychosis (WRAP) program. Nellie has worked in school, summer camp, clinical, and research settings with adolescents and young adults with ADHD and other mental health diagnoses. She is interested in developmental outcomes of transition aged youth experiencing ADHD as well as implementing and adapting interventions for ADHD in non-specialty, school, and community settings. Nellie is now a postdoctoral fellow at Seattle Children’s Hospital.