Dr. Gisela Jimenez-Colon completed her bachelor's degree with Suma Cum Laude in psychology with a minor in social research from the University of Puerto Rico in 2013. She obtained her PhD with Suma Cum Laude in clinical psychology in 2019 from Albizu University at San Juan Puerto Rico. Her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship was completed at the Children’s Institute in Los Angeles, on the trauma track, where she became certified in TF-CBT. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship within the Research Fellowship Program at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Bradley Hospital. Since her postdoctoral training, she has been the project coordinator of an NIMHD funded R01 for Latinx youth with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Dr. Jimenez-Colon was awarded with a Pilot Grant from the Advance-CTR that focuses on assessing how trauma may impact Latinx parenting practices. Gisela presently is a faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a License clinical psychologist with the Lifespan Physician Group practicing in Gateway Healthcare in the new Mi Gente Program focused on serving Latinx youth with mood disorders and trauma.
