Meet Our Team

We believe trainers and leadership need to have a real-world understanding of providing clinical services and training in order to serve others. Every member of our team, including our leadership, is a UP trainer and has met the rigorous standards for delivering and training others in the UP.

Leadership

Jacqueline R. Bullis, Ph.D., Co-Director

Jacqueline R. Bullis, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University under the mentorship of Dr. David Barlow. She is a licensed clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital with a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School. Her interests include how to increase access to evidence-based mental health care. In this capacity, she trains practitioners worldwide and works with organizations to develop impact-focused, scalable mental health solutions. She serves as the clinical lead and research advisor for Mass General Brigham's implementation of digital behavioral health interventions in primary care, outpatient psychiatry, and employee assistance programs. Dr. Bullis has authored numerous publications on evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders and is co-author of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders, an Oxford University Treatments That Work series.

Clair Robbins, Ph.D., Co-Director

Dr. Robbins received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University where she focused on the development and evaluation of the Unified Protocol (UP) under the mentorship of Dr. David Barlow. As part of her work, she specialized in the application of the UP to dysregulated anger. Dr. Robbins completed a predoctoral internship at the Durham VA and postdoctoral training at the Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation at Duke University Medical Center. She is a co-author of the UP and an expert national trainer. Dr. Robbins is a licensed clinical psychologist and currently works at Triangle Area Psychology Clinic in Durham, NC, where she provides clinical services to patients and trains therapists to deliver the UP. She has published numerous peer-review papers on the development, adaptation, and evaluation of transdiagnostic treatments. She is passionate about providing evidence-based treatments to patients and training providers to deliver these treatments.

David H. Barlow, Ph.D., Director Emeritus

David H. Barlow completed his undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. from the University of Vermont in 1969. Throughout his long career, he has become a leading expert in cognitive-behavioral approaches to the treatment of anxiety and related emotional disorders, having published over 650 articles and 90 books and clinical manuals on this topic. Dr. Barlow has also dedicated his career to training others in empirically supported treatments. He founded clinical psychology internship programs at both the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Brown University. While at the University at Albany, SUNY, Dr. Barlow established the Phobia and Anxiety Disorders Clinic, where many of his clinical protocols were developed and tested. When Dr. Barlow moved to Boston University in 1996, he founded the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, a world-renowned clinic for cutting edge cognitive-behavioral treatment of emotional disorders. Over the past decade, Dr. Barlow and his colleagues developed the Unified Protocol in response to emerging research on the nature of anxiety and related disorders, or emotional disorders.

Madison Boschulte, B.S., Administrative lead

Expert Trainers

Rachel Ammirati, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Kate Bentley, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

Christina L. Boisseau, Ph.D., Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

James F. Boswell, Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 

Jacqueline Bullis, Ph.D., McLean Hospital, Boston, MA

Laren Conklin, Ph.D., VA Central Ohio Healthcare System, Columbus, OH

Mike Drury, Psy.D., Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL

Kristen K. Ellard, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Elizabeth H. Eustis, Ph.D., Boston University, Big Health, Boston, MA

Jill Ehrenreich May, Ph.D. (Child and Adolescent Applications), University of Miami, Miami, FL

Todd J. Farchione, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, MA 

Matt W. Gallagher, Ph.D.,  University of Houston, Houston, TX

Hope Jackons, Ph.D., Bay Area Clinical Associates, Mobile, AL,

Heather M. Latin, Ph.D., Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 

Clair Robbins, Ph.D., Triangle Area Psychology Clinic, Durham, NC

Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Julianne Wilner Tirpak, Ph.D., McLean Hospital, Boston, MA