Saleha Mian
Doctoral Student
Saleha Mian is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research and clinical interests focus on working with immigrant and refugee families in understanding mental health, cultural, and systemic factors that support or hinder positive mental health outcomes. She works as a research member in the Child Health Equity Lab with Dr. Maria Teresa Coutinho as her advisor.
Most recently, Saleha was a school-based therapist working with children at an under-resourced school. As a counseling master’s student, she was a research assistant at Northwestern’s ADAPT lab, focusing on psychosis prediction in adolescents. Additionally, she was a research assistant for the Serving Immigrant Families Project at Boston Medical Center focusing on providing resources and education workshops for immigrant families and health-care providers. As an undergraduate, she was a research assistant at the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, identifying sex differences in behaviors after traumatic brain injuries.
pronouns: she/hers
Education
MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Northwestern University
BS, Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Publications
Hoffman, A., Watson, S., Makridis, A., Patel, A., He, C., Annadata, S., Motawakel, J., Mian, S., Fanselow, M., & Giza, C. (2021, July). Sex differences in circadian rhythm disruption after traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 38(14), A109-A109
Selected Presentations
Northwestern University. (2024, May 10). Masala mockery: Addressing acculturative stress in South Asian immigrant adolescents. Northwestern University Capstone Conference