Leila Sachner

Leila Sachner (CV) is a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology program at Ole Miss. Leila graduated from the University of Virginia in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. While at UVA, she was an undergraduate research assistant in the Program for Anxiety, Cognition, and Treatment Lab with Dr. Bethany Teachman, working on studies that examined online cognitive bias modification interventions for anxious individuals. After graduation, Leila completed a Post-Baccalaureate Clinical Fellowship at the Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. During this fellowship, Leila taught and implemented DBT with adolescents struggling with emotion dysregulation, self-injury, and suicidal ideation. She also worked in the Emotion Regulation, Family Transactions, and Trauma Lab with Dr. Alan Fruzzetti, examining family systems and outcomes of residential DBT treatment. Leila’s current research interests are in the role of validation on anxiety, emotion regulation, and parent-adolescent relationships.