Katya Isabelle Scott, B.S.

Katya Scott (she/her) began her position at the Office of the Clinical Director as a postbaccalaureate IRTA in August 2024. Earlier that year, she graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Art. In her undergraduate years, she primarily researched cultural considerations in art therapy with refugees. Her projects include a systematic review that has since been published in The Arts in Psychotherapy and her senior honors thesis: a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot art therapy program with Ukrainian refugees. At the NIAAA, Katya is interested in exploring the relationship between physical and mental health, as well as how social determinants of health can influence it. Katya aims to someday pursue a PhD in Counseling or Clinical Psychology to further address these topics through research, teaching, and practice. In her future work, her goal is to identify how health disparities impact people’s experiences in therapy and create accessible interventions in response.