Dr. Boucher earned her Ph.D. in Adult Clinical Psychology at the University of Windsor. She completed predoctoral training with the Calgary Clinical Psychology Residency Program and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. She joined the University of Windsor as an Assistant Professor in 2021.
In addition to psychological assessment and diagnosis, she is trained in multiple models of psychotherapy (e.g., CBT, ACT, EFT, psychodynamic and interpersonal/attachment-based approaches), and is drawn to person-centered and culturally-responsive methods of integration. She is licensed in the province of Ontario with competencies across the lifespan, and for individuals and couples.
Dr. Boucher directs the Memory, Emotion, and Therapy Applications (META) Lab aimed at integrating research from within and beyond psychology to better understand and promote health and wellness in clinical and non-clinical populations. Her team investigates relationships amongst autobiographical memories, emotions, self-views, and (meta)cognitive processes that enable different perspectives on experience or flexible ways of relating to experience. She is particularly interested in scale development and in understanding factors that support adaptive self-reflection, emotion change, psychological closure, and trauma resolution - all highly-relevant to therapeutic practice.
Dr. Boucher teaches the following courses: Psychological Disorders (undergraduate), Cognitive Processes (undergraduate), Psychopathology (graduate), Introduction to Psychotherapy (graduate), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (graduate), and Advanced Multicultural Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy (graduate).
Clinical Interventions, Compassionate healthcare, Mindfulness, Mixed methods
