I’m an applied developmental psychologist and clinician, and I have been on faculty as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Texas State University since 2008. My academic background and training is interdisciplinary: my expertise and research interests lie within the juncture of developmental and counseling psychology.
I received my doctorate in Lifespan Developmental Psychology from Florida International University in Miami, Florida in 2006 while becoming licensure eligible as a counselor. I earned my bachelor’s and a master’s in Psychology from University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. In 2019 I completed a 9-month long specialization certificate in Positive Psychology through Pennsylvania State University. I completed my 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) in 2022.
I have been teaching Psychology of Aging in both F2F and online formats for several years. I also teach a Professional Seminar: Careers in Psychology that is typically taught as an 8-week, hybrid, flipped classroom.
I was featured on the American Psychological Association: Society for Teaching Psychology national blog for my teaching style. I was also featured for compassionate teaching during the pandemic. I have presented on the topics of aging, positive psychology, mental health, and disenfranchised grief related related to pet loss.
My research interests are varied and interdisciplinary. My active research interests include faculty mental health and compassion fatigue, generalized anxiety disorder, and I’m currently conducting a scale validation study on an emerging construct, cultural vulnerability. My most recent research on compassion fatigue in higher education was featured in APA Psychology Teacher Network.
As Past-President of the Capital of Texas Counseling Association, I continue to engage in advocacy work at the Texas Capitol on behalf of the counseling profession.
You can follow me on on Instagram at mindful.teaching. psychologist or Twitter at @Dr_Cordaro.