Kristen Laulette

clinical assessor

Kristen Laulette (she/her/hers) is a second-year graduate student in the UCLA Clinical Psychology program and working with CAPPS as a graduate student assessor and trainee. She graduated from UCLA in 2021 and subsequently spent 3 years working at UCLA studying the development of adolescent psychosis. Clinically, she strives to provide trauma-informed, developmentally tailored care to youth and families navigating emerging mental health challenges. Kristen’s research interests are capturing heterogeneity in early-life adversity, understanding differential socio-environmental effects on structural and functional brain development, and elucidating risk and resilience factors for the development of psychosis-spectrum disorders.