Therapists
Cora Becker
Lauren Bondenlos
Lauren Bodenlos (they/them) is a Therapist with the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research clinic. In 2020, Lauren graduated from Agnes Scott College with a BA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Lauren is a current MSW student at UC Berkeley where they are specializing in aging. Lauren’s approach is rooted in the recovery model, and they aim to center their clients’ sense of strength, autonomy and creativity in session. Prior to starting at Cal, Lauren worked as a Community Specialist with older adults living in the Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods of San Francisco. Lauren’s professional interests include aging, disability justice, trauma, substance use, and impulsivity.
Marlen Diaz
- Marlen Diaz is a doctoral student in Dr. Allison Harvey’s lab in the Clinical Science program. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish Language & Literature with a minor in Education. Marlen worked at a community mental health clinic providing short-term prevention and early intervention services. She then returned to UC Berkeley, as a Project Coordinator with The Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. Under the mentorship of Dr. Harvey, Marlen is interested in researching the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments in the community setting. She is also interested in researching transdiagnostic treatments, mood disorders, behavioral patterns and stigma.
Tania Jarjuora
- Tania is Sleep Therapist and Clinical Assessor with the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. She has her BA in Human Biology and Society with a concentration in Bioethics and Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles. During her time at UCLA, she worked in a Perceptual Processing and Computational Lab under Dr. Zili Liu while simultaneously participating in California Teach. Tania proceeded to receive her Masters in Teaching, researching the impact of societal labels on educational outcomes in middle-school aged youth in Harlem, NY. Her research propelled her into analyzing disparities that exist because of societal labels and hierarchies and pivoted her career interests into social welfare work. Tania is a second year Masters student at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. She hopes to receive her LCSW to do both micro and macro level social work to improve outcomes of underserved youth and study the impacts of social determinants of health into adulthood. Her interests are in implementation science to modify existing educational systems and assessing treatment efficacy in serving trauma-impacted youth.
Sophia Oliver
Sophia (she/her) is a Project Coordinator and Sleep Therapist with the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. She graduated summa cum laude from UC Davis with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Public Health Sciences. Sophia began as a Research Assistant for Dr. Allison Harvey in June 2021 working on projects involving memory support strategies, habit formation, and implementation and dissemination science. Throughout undergraduate, she participated in translational neuroscience research at UC Davis, and completed her honors thesis under the guidance of Dr. Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz examining how sleep quality may impact posttraumatic stress symptoms in those who have been exposed to community and gun violence. Sophia’s research interests include transdiagnostic treatment development, violence exposure, and the effects of sleep quality on mental health outcomes. She will be applying to Clinical Psychology Ph.D.‘s in 2024.
Estephania Ovalle
Estephania Ovalle is a Project Coordinator and Sleep Therapist for the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic in Dr. Harvey’s lab. She graduated from UCLA in 2021 with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Cognitive Science. She began her research career working in Dr. Matthew Lieberman’s Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. At UCLA, Estephania worked on various projects, as well as an independent research project in the Culture and Anxiety lab for Mental Health Advances (CALMA), under Dr. Denise Chavira. She also worked as a CBT coach with the Depression Grand Challenge and as a mindfulness coach on the Youth Mindful Awareness Program study. Estephania’s research interests include treatment development and understanding the cognitive and behavioral differences in individuals experiencing mood related disorder.
Nena Salazar
Nena Salazar is a Clinical Project Coordinator and Sleep Therapist in the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. She previously attended the UC Berkeley post-baccalaureate certificate program, where she conducted research as part of a treatment development team in the areas of treatment dissemination, implementation, habit formation, and transdiagnostic approaches to mental health. She completed her B.A. in psychology at Naropa University, where she trained extensively in mindfulness and compassion practices in conjunction with Eastern and Western psychology studies. She has worked in the Harvey lab since January of 2021. Nena hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology. Her research interests include treatment development, dissemination, and implementation; habit formation, mindfulness, trauma, psychosis, and transdiagnostic approaches to mental health and disorder.
Julia Spencer
Julia is a Project Coordinator and Therapist with the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. She has a BS in Molecular biology from Mills College and a Post Baccalaureate certification through the UC Berkeley Research Psychology program. Julia has 3 years of experience working as a patient care manager through Alameda Health Systems at Highland hospital, 3 years of experience as a research associate and clinical interviewer in a lab focusing on the effects of stress on mental health and has been working with Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic for the last year and a half. Julia’s research interests include the relationship between mental health and sleep outcomes, particularly considering resilience and coping from early life stressors. In the future, Julia plans to be working on a PhD in Clinical Psychology.