2017 GSoP Alumni Awards

We are pleased to provide GSoP Alumni Awards in recognition of outstanding and professional accomplishments to Halleh Hashtpari, MS, Miffa Moorhead, MS, and Ashley Ribeiro, PsyD, BCBA. 

Halleh Hashtpari, MS graduated from the MS Clinical Psychology program in 2014 after defending her Master’s thesis titled, Identity integration on psychological well-being of heterosexual and sexual minority Iranian Americans. Post-graduation, Halleh worked at a residential treatment center first as a residential counselor and then as a clinical site supervisor, where their primary responsibilities were centered around crisis management, and skills coaching. This Fall, Halleh began a PhD program in Counseling Psychology at the University of Utah. At the university, Halleh has taught undergraduate psychology courses; completed both quantitative and qualitative research relating to intersectionality, identity, culture and wellbeing (resulting in multiple peer-reviewed presentations and two manuscripts under peer review); co-authored a book chapter on lifelong learning in the helping professions that is currently in press; and received an honorable mention for leadership from the counseling psychology department at the University of Utah. This summer, in addition to continuing their doctoral work, Halleh will be joining Salt Lake Community College as an adjunct faculty member. 

Miffa Moorhead, MS graduated from the MFT program in August 2012 and moved to Geneva Switzerland to intern for the World Health Organization. Returning to California, she worked as a psychosocial rehabilitation therapist and a school based therapist before beginning her current position at the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health.  As an alum, her work is notable for her international experience working with populations in impoverished communities in India, children with special needs in China, and with a multicultural research team at the World Health Organization in Switzerland.

Ashley Ribeiro, PsyD, BCBA earned her BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed her Masters and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Cal Lutheran. Her dissertation was titled, Interpersonal Change during Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: An Evidence-Based Case Study. After graduation, Ashley began a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She currently works at UCLA as a postdoctoral scholar and clinical instructor for a pioneering NIH funded autism biomarkers study. In addition to her work at UCLA, she founded her own private business and provides services as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst to young children and adults. She is also an adjunct professor of Psychology at Cal Lutheran. Ashley has satisfied all requirements for clinical psychology licensure in California.