“Typically, it starts with talking about sports, and as we build that relationship, we intertwine more and more things outside of sports into the discussion,” Hankle said.

Whether opening dialogues with roommates or sharing time management strategies, Chatham success coaches are there to make sure first-year students have the tools they need.

By combining their positive psychology and addictions classes, professors John Dimoff and Deanna Hamilton inspired their students to find new ways of thinking.

Montaya Parham, MAP ’21, is focusing her doctoral dissertation on just that question. For her, it’s personal.

Christine Simpson, PsyD ’16, found a passion for psychology when she studied it at Chatham. “With something as complex as human behavior, you never find the answer.”

Meet a few of our Student Success Coaches and the students they help adjust to college life.

Meet 2020 PsyD alumna, Dr. Alexis Hahn. She managed to transform her doctoral internship into a full-time job and her doctoral dissertation into a published research paper in American Psychologist. Read more about Alexis's daily work as Staff Psychologist at a federal men’s prison.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. John Dimoff and PsyD students Angela Dao, Jodie Mitchell, and Alexandra Olson tackled applying social psychological theory to COVID-19 in hopes of improving and influencing public health messaging during the pandemic. We caught up with this research team to learn more about their collaboration and recommendations for impactful health communications.

Alex Olson, PsyD ‘22 has a passion for working with refugee and immigrant populations to provide therapy that empowers the patient and shifts the paradigm.