Emma Lindquist

Emma Lindquist is a post-doctoral research fellow working in the Nock Lab and in The Center for Precision Psychiatry and Department of Outpatient Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Emma received her B.A. in Psychological Sciences with a minor in Management and Organizational Leadership from The College of William & Mary in 2020. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern California in 2026, where she received extensive training working with adults and couples, including training in comprehensive DBT. Emma completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at MGH/Harvard Medical School, where she received specialized training in DBT, inpatient psychiatry, and integrative psychotherapy.

Emma's work bridges research and clinical practice with a focus on supporting individuals through stigmatized, uncomfortable, and emotionally complex experiences. She provides psychotherapy for mood, personality, anxiety, and trauma-spectrum disorders, as well as for grief, life transitions, and financial stress. Her research examines treatment utilization, non-traditional help-seeking (e.g., on social media), and stigma in the context of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs). Emma is particularly interested in the factors influencing SITB disclosure to healthcare providers along with ways to make treatment for SITBs more effective and pragmatic. Throughout this work, she uses a mixed methods approach to center the perspectives of people who have lived experience with SITBs. Emma's work in the Nock Lab focuses on applied clinical research aimed at adapting and testing scalable, skills-based interventions and effective, accessible follow-up care for psychiatric inpatients at high risk for suicide.