Kati Lear

Dr. Kati Lear is an associate investigator in the Portland Psychotherapy Research Lab in Portland, Oregon. Her research focuses on the roles of chronic shame, self-criticism, and social exclusion in the perceptions of belonging, social functioning, and psychological well-being. She is passionate about psychotherapy process research and the development of contextual behavioral interventions aimed to enhance self-compassion, psychological flexibility, and social connectedness. Dr. Lear also provides clinical supervision to doctoral students in psychology, and co-facilitates workshops related to ACT and working with self-criticism and shame in psychotherapy.