Professional info

Carolina Borges graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in August 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. As an undergraduate at Berkeley, Carol was a research assistant in Dr. Allison Harvey’s Sleep and Mood Research Clinic, where she worked with Dr. Harvey on a study examining the role of sleep deprivation in teenager and adult emotional states, while also providing administrative support to the lab. As a graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Carol was a research assistant on a project investigating the effects of personality, beliefs, and interpretations on decision making of inmates at the Jackson Diagnostic and Classification System in Jackson, GA. Carol graduated from John Jay in May of 2011, and went to work as a forensic case manager for the Mental Health Court Advocacy Program in Brooklyn, NY, advocating for mentally ill offenders to receive treatment in lieu of jail time.

Carol is a third-year clinical psychology graduate student at the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium in Palo Alto, CA. Within the Substance Abuse and Anxiety Program, she conducts diagnostic assessments and leads cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) groups for a study investigating the role of CBT-I in cannabis cessation outcomes among cannabis dependent veterans with insomnia