Rachelle Reid, MS

Rachelle Reid is a Behavioral Medicine fellow in the Clinical and Community Psychology internship program at Yale School of Medicine. Her primary placement is at the Yale New Haven Hospital. She is also a doctoral candidate in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program (health area of concentration) at the University of Miami. Rachelle previously earned her M.S. in clinical psychology and B.S. in psychology (with a minor in criminology) at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) in Kingston, Jamaica.

Rachelle’s clinical orientation is primarily person-centered and, secondarily, she utilizes cognitive behavior therapy and third-wave therapies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness). Rachelle's clinical population of interest is cancer survivors, having completed an externship at Memorial Cancer Institute. Rachelle is passionate about further exploring psycho-oncology in clinical and research contexts, as well as working with patients presenting with other medical comorbidities such as sleep, tobacco use, and pain.

Rachelle’s research interests center on elevating the voices of marginalized communities to help improve their quality of life and quality of care. As such, her research focuses on developing holistic interventions that incorporate spirituality/religion and mindfulness for marginalized health populations and help improve quality of care. She is especially passionate about integrating advanced statistical quantitative methods with qualitative methodologies to tell rich stories that may help improve the quality of life of individuals at the margins, especially Black women living with HIV . Rachelle looks forward to expanding her research to other health populations that also experience stigma and discrimination and contributing to the development of effective and culturally relevant interventions for underserved populations.