Abigail (“Abby”) Szkutak is a third-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Teachers College, Columbia University. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, Abby worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she coordinated studies investigating cognitive/attentional processes across worries, rumination, and obsessions, TMS for OCD, and neural correlates of emotional learning. She is interested in leveraging cognitive and affective neuroscience techniques to investigate regulatory mechanisms underlying the transdiagnostic treatment of negative self-referential processing. She is also interested in investigating ways to personalize dosing of treatment components to match clients’ needs.
