Antioch Voices Kevin Niehaus

Sharing You: A National Coming Out Story

Sitting there wanting to share your truth, choking on the words that describe your true self. Fear races through your mind that you may not be enough for them to stay. Your truth, a deep vulnerability, is not enough. A simple comment is like pulling tar from your mouth. “This moment is perfect,” you think to yourself,

Anthony Pennant ’22

Anthony Pennant, LMFT, PhD ’22 (New England, PhD in Couple and Family Therapy), Associate Chair of the Couple and Family Therapy program in Seattle, was featured in the episode Socially…

Bruce Springsteen on stage holding hands with a woman in the crowd.

PsyD Professor Publishes Book on Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans

From Beatlemania to the BTS Army, musical fandom has long included girls and women—and for just as long, there’s been a stereotype of female fans as full of lust for the male objects of their obsession. But is this a fair description? And how should we understand older female fans, the ones who have been a fan for decades?

Jude Bergkamp ’98, ’10

Jude Bergkamp ’98, ’10 (Seattle, MA in Psychology, PsyD), Chair and Core Faculty of Seattle’s PsyD program, led an 11-member research team that recently published the article “Pathways to the…

Shoshana D. Kerewsky ’98

Shoshana D. Kerewsky’s ’98 (New England, PsyD) memoir, “Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino: A Memoir,” recently won the Firebird Book Award in the LGBTQ Nonfiction category. Published in 2022, Kerewsky’s memoir conveys the rhythms…

Marina Masaki

Leveraging Her Identity and Experience, Marina Masaki Brings Mental Health Awareness to Asian-American Communities  

When she was a kid, Marina Masaki’s family didn’t talk openly about sex. This wasn’t unusual for a young person growing up in the U.S., and in particular in Japanese-American families like the one she grew up in. Sexuality is a subject that many parents are uncomfortable discussing with their children—even if this reticence puts them at risk later on.

Headshots of six people involved in the symposium. From L to R- Top- Katherine Evarts, Aishwarya Lonikar, Jude Bergkamp Bottom- Dean Hammer, Susana Gomez, Ingrid Ingerson

In Second Year, Social Justice Symposium Brings PsyD Students Together For Research Activism

“Social justice has been part of the Antioch mission since its inception,” says Lorraine Mangione, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Antioch University’s New England campus. But implementing that mission requires many different approaches. That’s why, on February 4, faculty and students from Antioch’s New England PsyD program and Seattle PsyD program came together for the second annual Social Justice Symposium, with the theme, “Liberation from Colonialism Now: Promoting Research Activism.”