Dr. Teresa Vargas
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Teresa Vargas received her B.S. in Psychology and English Literature from the University of Miami in 2014. In 2023, she received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University. She completed her Clinical Internship in the Cognitive Behavioral Track at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Clinically, Teresa has advanced training in evidence-based assessment and treatment of adolescents and adults with severe mental illness and complex presentations of psychopathology. In her research and as a postdoctoral fellow in the Stress and Development Lab, Teresa is interested in understanding how neighborhood and community-level factors can inform mental illness vulnerability, and through which mechanisms.