Dr. Cole Morris (they/them) earned their master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at Ball State University in July 2019. As a graduate assistant in the Personality and Psychopathology (P2) Lab, they completed their thesis under Dr. Lee’s supervision, examining the assessment of feigned ADHD. A manuscript based on this work was published in Psychological Assessment in 2023. Cole went on to earn their PhD in Counseling Psychology at Texas Tech University (TTU) in 2025, with a doctoral minor in Women and Gender Studies. Cole received multiple awards throughout their doctoral training, including the 2023 Mary S. Cerney Student Paper Award from the Society for Personality Assessment, Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship from TTU, and Psychological Science Department awards for commitment to research and DEI. Cole completed their predoctoral internship at Rogers Behavioral Health in the Trauma Recovery Program, where they were awarded the One Roger’s award for commitment to excellent clinical practice. Cole is now the Ettner Transgender Health fellow at the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Their research focuses on sexual and gender health, culturally responsive treatment and psychological assessment, healing from traumatic experiences, group therapy interventions, and the application of liberation and feminist frameworks to clinical training and practice.
