Amy Wedel, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Counseling Psychology department. A Bay Area native originally, she received her bachelor’s with high honors in psychology from Oberlin College, after which she spent two years conducting research on tobacco and e-cigarette use at the TSET Health Promotion Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Syracuse University and completed her clinical internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, with specialty training in substance use and tobacco use treatment.
Her research focuses on affective and social-contextual factors in young people’s substance use, as well as mechanisms underlying disparities in substance use and related consequences. She is most passionate about understanding how we can improve and leverage social connections to improve addiction recovery outcomes.