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University of Mississippi

Graduate Students

HART Graduate Students 23-24

Carey Sevier, M.S.
Fourth Year
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Carey Sevier graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology before graduating from the University of Nottingham in 2019 with a Master of Science in Health Psychology. She then completed a two year Post-Baccalaureate Clinical Fellowship in the Child and Adolescent Division at McLean Hospital working at the 3East Continuum. Here she worked as a research assistant for the Emotion Regulation and Family Transactions (ERFT) lab, working on several projects looking at adolescent emotion dysregulation, self-hatred, and suicidality. She is currently in her fourth year of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Ole Miss. Carey is interested in the intersection of anxiety, emotion dysregulation and maladaptive coping strategies.

 

Allie Freshley, B.A.
Second Year
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Allie Freshley graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. After graduating, she worked in the HART Lab at Ole Miss as a post-baccalaureate research assistant, where she assisted on research related to misophonia. She is currently in her second year of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Ole Miss. Allie is interested in anxiety, misophonia, emotion dysregulation, and the interpersonal ways in which these intersect.

Blaine Peters, B.S.
First Year
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Blaine Peters received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas A&M University in December 2022. After graduating, she continued her research at Texas A&M where she conducted structured clinical interviews, performed positive affect interventions, and collected electroencephalographic (EEG) data from participants with a range of psychopathologies. She is currently in her first year of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Ole Miss. Blaine is interested in the cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological, mechanisms underlying anxiety and OCD disorders. She hopes to inform novel treatments through her work.

 

Shayon Tayebi, M.A.
First Year
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Shayon Tayebi graduated from Louisiana State University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology before graduating from Sam Houston State University in 2024 with a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology. He worked at Applied Psychological Services in The Woodlands, Texas from 2023-2024, where he conducted clinical interviews, cognitive assessments, and achievement tests and wrote reports for those seeking Social Security services. He is currently in his first year of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Ole Miss. Shayon is interested in polysubstance use and racism’s association with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and OCD.