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Brenna Lincoln (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She holds both a master鈥檚 degree in Mental Health Counseling and bachelor鈥檚 degree in Applied Psychology and Human Development from Boston College.

Brenna鈥檚 research centers on the development of purpose, belonging, and mentorship among adolescents and young adults. She is听especially interested in how sociopolitical and cultural contexts influence the process of purpose development. Her dissertation examines how undergraduate women understand their capacity to pursue purposeful careers while also meeting their basic needs.听Clinically, Brenna primarily works with children and adolescents, with a particular focus on supporting anxious youth and their families.

Kate is a 2025 graduate of Boston College, and an aspiring psychotherapist. She is听deeply curious about life and the world, and finds a sense of grounding in听reading, contemplating, and writing about the peculiar beauties of living. For听Kate, the field of the psychological humanities serves as a revitalizing dimension听through which her future clinical work鈥攁nd, more broadly, her way of relating to听life itself鈥攃an be approached with deeper fidelity to ethicality, the ineffable, and听ontological capaciousness.听

Kate's research interests stem from a poietic unfolding catalyzed by her exposure听to profoundly insightful works (including those by Philip Cushman) as well as the听layered and lasting influence of her transformative mentors through the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics.听Kate's current research emerges from her deepening passions for relational听psychoanalysis, Mad Studies, existential philosophy, and depth psychology. She听is currently working on two projects: one that interrogates the McDonaldization听of imagination, and another that engages Schopenhauerian Pessimism to propel听more compassionate ways of understanding and relating to suffering in clinical听practice.