Rachel is a doctoral student on the Clinical Psychology program. Rachel graduated from University College London in 2018 with a Master of Research in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology and spent the second year of this program working as a Research Fellow in the Yale Child Study Center. Her research interests focus on the transition to motherhood, particularly in considering how stress and anxiety influence the experience of pregnancy and childbirth, in addition to caregiving behaviors and mother-infant bonding in the early postpartum period. In her free time, Rachel enjoys traveling, hiking in Colorado, spending time with family and friends, baking, community service and watching documentaries.