Graduate Students

Gereon (he/him) is a seventh-year graduate student in the counseling psychology PhD program at Colorado State University. He is currently completing his internship at The Huntsman Mental Health Institute in Salt Lake City. After receiving his BS in psychology from CSU in 2015, he began working with adolescents and adults through SummitStone Health Partners specializing in addictions and mental health. He furthered this interest by working with the Campus Connections mentoring program, exploring the positive influence that a mentoring relationship can have. Gereon is broadly interested in the intervention and prevention of substance misuse, substance use rates among young adults, and the role that personality plays in individual differences. He is currently working on identifying the influence that the mentor relationship quality has on impacting substance misuse among at-risk youth.

Olivia (she/her) is a sixth-year graduate student in the counseling psychology PhD program at Colorado State University. She received her MA in psychological science from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2018. Olivia’s primary research interests include harm reduction behaviors and mechanisms of behavior change for substance use. She is currently working on a project involving a brief web-based intervention program for college student cannabis use.

Olivia will be completing her doctoral internship at Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, RI!

Morgan (she/her) is a fifth-year graduate student in the counseling psychology PhD program at Colorado State University. She completed her MS in mental health counseling at SUNY Albany in New York, where she worked on the Health and Addictive Behaviors Investigative Team. Morgan is interested in addictive behaviors research.

Morgan will be completing her doctoral internship at Charleston Consortium in Charleston, SC!

Bags (she/her) is a fourth-year graduate student in the counseling psychology PhD program at Colorado State University. Bags received her BA from Baylor University, where she also developed her interests in behavioral-health research, performance art, and triathlons. Through her experiences as a student, endurance athlete, and creative, she developed her orientation as a narrative therapist. She is currently focused on scale development for psilocybin use, but is broadly interested in substance use research, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies, and holistic health. Most of her time is spent at the university, in the Rocky Mountains, or at the local comedy club.

Naomi (pronunciation Nay-oh-me; she/her) is a second-year graduate student in the counseling psychology PhD program at Colorado State University. She received her BS in psychology from the University of Washington, where she studied the reward system in mice. Since then, Naomi has made the transition into clinical research and is broadly interested in harm reduction, substance use prevention/intervention implementation and program evaluation, and polysubstance use. Outside of academia, you can find Naomi volunteering at local animal sanctuaries/rescues, cuddling up on the couch with her two cats, and enjoying Colorado’s landscape.