Lara Honos-Webb

Assistant Professor in Counseling Psychology

Lara Honos-Webb was born and raised in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with highest distinction from the University of Michigan and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in substance abuse research at the University of California, San Francisco. She was the recipient of the Cincinnati Academy of Professional Psychology recognition of early career contribution award and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Early Career Investigator travel award.

Her current research interests include investigating the psychological effects in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States. A current study is examining coping strategies and comparing two interventions that might promote healthy coping- a journal writing condition and a story listening condition. On her postdoctoral fellowship she conducted a study comparing different strategies for assessing substance use disorders in severely mentally ill clients. She has also investigated the question of what change looks like in psychotherapy if the self is understood as multivoiced (a community of selves) rather than as a monolithic unity. She developed a method for rating incremental change in psychotherapy. Her research has been published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy Research and Psychotherapy.

She has worked in a Veterans Affairs Medical Hospital, a Student Counseling Center and a Community Mental Health Center. Her theoretical orientation is eclectic-integrative. She developed a framework for making clinically responsive decisions integrating different therapeutic approaches.

She and her husband, Ken, live in Walnut Creek. Her interests include hiking, exploring the bay area, travel and figure skating.

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