City: Las Vegas
Kara Christensen Pacella Featured
I am a licensed clinical psychologist, researcher, and educator. I completed my PhD at The Ohio State University, internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kansas. I trained in Behavioral Sleep Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina and have been doing clinical work and research in this area since 2019. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where I study the link between sleep and eating behaviors and train our next generation of clinical psychologists. I am particularly interested in translating new findings from research into clinical practice and helping make psychological treatments more effective and accessible.
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Dr. Short earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Florida State University in 2019, where she gained extensive training in the treatment of anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She completed her clinical internship at the Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina and Ralph H. Johnson Veteran Affairs Medical Center), where she received further training in behavioral sleep medicine, as well as anxiety and PTSD treatment. Dr. Short then completed her postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she gained additional experience in the treatment of chronic pain and insomnia when comorbid with trauma- and anxiety-related disorders.
Her treatment philosophy is cognitive behavioral, with a focus on behavioral exposure-ba ...
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