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MATCHED! 🎉

I’m incredibly grateful and excited to share that I have officially matched for my clinical psychology internship for 2026! This journey has been filled with long nights, growth, self-reflection, mentorship, and more learning than I could have imagined.

With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks? People are using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence apps to help them with emotional issues, but experts say they are not a substitute for therapy or companionship.

People are using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence apps to help them with emotional issues, but experts say they are not a substitute for therapy or companionship.

On Zara, Whole Foods, and the weight of being seen as a threat The first time I really felt it as a mother, the heat of being watched, was inside a Zara.

🛍️ The surveillance doesn’t stop.

Read my latest:
“On Zara, Whole Foods, and the Weight of Being Seen as a Threat”
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#LivingWhileBlack #RetailRacism #BlackMotherhood #BeingWatched #SurveillanceCulture #AntiBlackness #Zara #WholeFoods

They Shut Down PBS. What Happens to Our Kids Now? I learned to read with Reading Rainbow.

They shut down PBS.
I learned to read with Reading Rainbow.
Now my son learns compassion from Work It Out Wombats.

This wasn’t about budgets.
It was about control.

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#SavePBS #PBSKids #PublicMedia #DefundIgnorance #FundEducation #LearningIsPower

Image announcing a new article published in the American Psychologist. Article is titled, “The Fierce Ethical Urgency of Decoloniality in Therapy: From Understanding to Action” and the authors are Dr. Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Dr. Hector Y. Adames, Dr. Kenneth S. Pope, and Dr. Melba J. T. Vasquez. The abstract reads: “Disentangling psychology from the grip of methods, values, ways of knowing, and power structures considered normative within Western societies, all of which have been used to justify dominance and coloniality, presents a complex challenge and an ethical imperative. Psychology must rise to this challenge. This article invites readers to reflect on how coloniality influences the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States and people from the Global South. The article examines the history of imperialism and colonialism. It considers how Western psychology’s ideas (i.e., psyimperialism) were spread and imposed on others (i.e., psycolonization). This approach fell short of meeting psychology’s ethical responsibilities. The article then discusses why it is critical to broaden the scope of our perspective beyond reflexive acceptance of Western ways of thinking, especially those that violate our ethical values, and weigh other approaches. We conclude with a call to action, offering questions and suggesting strategies that may be useful in moving beyond intentions and commitments to effectively decolonize our practice.”

#NewPublication

🟡 "The Fierce Ethical Urgency of Decoloniality in Therapy: From Understanding to Action"

🟡 Published in @apajournals.bsky.social American Psychologist.

🟡 Available and free to download at psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... @nchavez.bsky.social

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

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New article about my colleagues' and my LGBTQ+ publishing guidelines paper in this month's APA Monitor! www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

Steadfast in our commitment to #LGBTQHealth research, our lab is continuing full-speed ahead with data collection among multigender-attracted young adults! Please consider sharing our flyer broadly!

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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

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“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

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Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use Hospitals across the country reported mothers to authorities after they tested positive for medications used routinely in millions of births.

Hospitals across the country reported mothers to authorities after they tested positive for medications used routinely in millions of births.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The Portable Mentor Cambridge Core - Psychiatry - The Portable Mentor

So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!!

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A reminder that queer joy IS resistance.

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As an Associate Dean for Research, I don't think people are prepared for how dramatically the funding landscape is going to change with the new administration. Some things I've been thinking about:

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Todd, N. R., Nguyễn, D. M., Blackburn, A. M., & La, R. (2024). Associations between state policies and sexual minority mental health disparities. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. doi.org/10.1037/tps0...

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Is there a starter pack for clinical psychology Ph.D students? #clinicalpsych

Everyone: just submit the rest of your psychology internship applications.
Me: of course!
Brain: what if I edit my cover letters one more time.

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. Audre Lorde