Dina Gohar

Dr. Gohar received her doctorate in clinical and social psychology from Duke University in 2017. She completed her pre-doctoral internship in lifespan clinical psychology at the University of Michigan's Mary. A Rackham Institute. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in child clinical psychology at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) in 2018, where she also served as a Clinical Supervisor for two years, and looks forward to providing clinical supervision at OSU, too. Before Duke, she completed a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center while getting rigorous training in psychodiagnostic assessment at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania’s ADHD Center. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University magna cum laude with highest honors in Psychology, she also taught and counseled disadvantaged youth in Noisy-le-Grand, France and inner city London.

Passionate about teaching and mentoring in higher education, Dr. Gohar has been teaching in the University of Michigan's Department of Psychology since 2018. She looks forward to developing and teaching courses for Oregon State's MS Clinical Psychology program, which she co-directs. She also enjoys conducting research on improving teaching and learning in the classroom and continuing her intradisciplinary doctoral program of research examining the self-processes and behaviors that contribute to human flourishing--such as self-presentation and self-regulation, self-efficacy--and now, growth mindset--and how to optimize them. Additionally, she practices clinical psychology part-time to meet a great need with her comprehensive training in a variety of empirically-supported treatments with youth, parents, families, adults, and couples with a range of emotional, behavioral, and/or health difficulties. She also has specialized training in exposure and response prevention for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across the lifespan. Her therapeutic approach is integrative but firmly grounded in cognitive and behavioral theories (CBT), including parent [behavior] management training (PMT), and “third-wave” mindfulness-based approaches like Acceptance-Commitment Therapy (ACT) and positive psychotherapy (PPT). With her passion for positive psychology, she has a particular penchant for helping students succeed in high school, college, and beyond by harnessing their strengths and effectively addressing any socioemotional and learning difficulties (e.g., performance/test anxiety, perfectionism, ADHD, LD, ASD) so they can achieve their full potential in and outside of the classroom.