Email: gad9534@nyu.edu
Program: PhD in Clinical/Counseling Psychology
Year Entered Program: 2025
Research Interests: culturally tailored interventions; health behaviors and coping; social support
Principal Advisor(s): Dr. William Tsai
Research Description/Bio:
Grace Ding is a PhD student in the Clinical/Counseling Psychology program at New York University. Grace's research interests lie at the intersection of culture, stress and coping, and social support. She is interested in better understanding how cultural values impact emotion regulation, health behaviors, and close relationships. Grace hopes to develop culturally tailored interventions to improve health outcomes in underrepresented populations. Prior to joining NYU, Grace was a clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she studied suicidal thoughts and behaviors in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents, as well as treatments for adult depression. Grace received her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University.