About
Dr. Gohar currently teaches courses like Introduction to Social Psychology, Research Methods in Social Psychology, and The Science of Happiness, and mentors undergraduates in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is passionate about teaching and mentoring and has won several competitive awards for distinguished teaching in higher education. She also enjoys conducting research on improving teaching and learning in the classroom and continuing her intradisciplinary doctoral program of research examining the self-processes and behaviors that contribute to human flourishing--such as self-presentation and self-regulation, self-efficacy--and now, growth mindset--and how to optimize them.
Additionally, Dr. Gohar practices clinical psychology part-time to meet a great need with her comprehensive training in a variety of empirically-supported treatments with youth, parents, families, adults, and couples with a range of emotional, behavioral, and/or health difficulties. She also has specialized training in exposure and response prevention for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across the lifespan. Her therapeutic approach is integrative but firmly grounded in cognitive and behavioral theories (CBT), including parent [behavior] management training (PMT), and “third-wave” mindfulness-based approaches like Acceptance-Commitment Therapy (ACT) and positive psychotherapy (PPT). With her passion for positive psychology, she has a particular penchant for helping students succeed in high school, college, and beyond by harnessing their strengths and effectively addressing any socioemotional and learning difficulties (e.g., performance/test anxiety, perfectionism, ADHD, LD, ASD) so they can achieve their full potential in and outside of the classroom. Dr. Gohar also had a Faculty position as a Clinical Supervisor at the University of Michigan's University Center for the Child and Family and loves providing clinical supervision.
Dr. Gohar received her doctorate in clinical and social psychology from Duke University in 2017. She completed her pre-doctoral internship in lifespan clinical psychology at the University of Michigan's Mary. A Rackham Institute, where she subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in child clinical psychology at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) in 2018. Additionally, she did a clinical externship at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, which entailed providing trauma-informed, relationship-based therapy and wrap-around services for disadvantaged parents/caregivers and their 0-7 year-old children with emotional, behavioral and/or developmental difficulties. Before starting graduate school at Duke, she completed a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center while getting rigorous training in psychodiagnostic assessment at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania’s ADHD Center. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University magna cum laude with highest honors in Psychology, Dr. Gohar also taught and counseled disadvantaged youth in Noisy-le-Grand, France and inner city London, UK, for two years, respectively. She'd be more than happy to talk with students about working or studying abroad, which she enthusiastically recommends if possible, or anything else they desire! :) For fun, she likes to walk her therapy Dogtor Bailey, travel, listen to brilliant singer-songwriters like Sara Bareilles, Taylor Swift, and John Mayer, enjoy Broadway shows as a native New Yorker, and binge-watch dramedies/sitcoms when she should be sleeping.
