Lauren Bylsma PhD

Dr. Bylsma is a clinical psychologist with expertise in experimental psychopathology and naturalistic approaches to investigating emotional processing and regulation in depression. Her work utilizes a multi-method longitudinal approach to assess affective dysfunction in depression, including affective neural processing (ERPs), cardiovascular psychophysiological responses to stress, affective behavior, and daily life emotional functioning in adolescents and adults. She began a T32 fellowship in the IMPACT program in 2012 and joined the faculty in 2014 after receiving a K01 to investigate neurobehavioral indices of emotional processing and regulation associated with familial depression risk in adolescents. Currently, Dr. Bylsma is PI of a NARSAD Award investigating gut microbiome characteristics in youth at risk for depression in relation to autonomic stress regulation and neural reward processing, and Co-I on two R01s utilizing ambulatory psychophysiology to examine emotion regulation in adults with distress disorders and threat dysregulation in adolescents at risk for psychosis. Dr. Bylsma has regularly mentored undergraduates, graduate students, residents, interns, and postdoctoral fellows. Clinically, she serves as Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Psychotherapy (CAP) and Assistant Director of the HOPE TEAM, where she provides clinical supervision in CBT for mood and anxiety disorders and psychosis risk in adults and adolescents.