In this episode, I sat down (virtually) with Lydia Sigurdson, a doctoral candidate of clinical psychology and old friend. It was so nice to reconnect with Lydia, an I had so much fun diving into these topics. You're going to love it!

Lydia Sigurdson is a doctoral candidate of clinical psychology at The University of Southern Mississippi. She just finished her 5th year of graduate school, where she provided therapy and assessments in a community mental health clinic, a juvenile detention center, and inpatient psychiatric hospitals. She’ll be completing her internship year in her hometown of Buffalo (woohoo!) at Buffalo Psychiatric Center starting in July, which is the last step to receive her PhD in clinical psychology. Lydia’s clinical focuses include severe and persistent mental illness (“SMI”), and at-risk adolescents. Her research focuses on what motivates individuals to seek mental health treatment, and what we can do to improve mental health in our community.

We touched on a lot of topics from our changing identities to automatic negative thoughts to how (and where) to manage mental health.

A few things Lydia mentioned in this episode:
Personal values card sort
Erikson's Stages of Development
James Marcia's Identity Status Theory

Questions for Lydia about these topics or graduate school? Email:
Lydia.Sigurdson@usm.eduOr reach out to me and I'll get your question/comment to her :)


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