Angela Ashley
Angela (She/her) began the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology at Lakehead University in 2025. Her research focuses on the role of digital mHealth tools in promoting youth and family mental health, emotion co-regulation, and coping. Prior to this, she also completed her MA in Clinical Psychology at Lakehead University under the supervision of Dr. Mushquash. Her MA research focused on implementing and assessing the impact of a resilience-building and coping mHealth app, JoyPop, as an adjunct tool for youth clients receiving mental health services. Her research has been supported through CGS-M CIHR funding, and she is a Fellow with The Digital, Inclusive, Virtual, and Equitable Research Training in Mental Health Platform (DIVERT Mental Health). For 5 years, Angela also worked with individuals with developmental disabilities as a support worker. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking/baking new recipes, reading, and rock climbing!
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Jaidyn Charlton
Jaidyn began her PhD in Clinical Psychology in September 2024. Prior to this, she completed her HBA in 2021 and MA in 2024, all supervised by Dr. Mushquash at Lakehead University. Jaidyn’s dissertation is a multimethod examination of how emerging adults use social media to cope with daily stressors. This doctoral research is currently supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – Doctoral Fellowship and a SSHRC Insight Grant. She has previously been supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She has research experience examining the Dark Triad personality traits (for her MA), emotion regulation, the JoyPop app, Indigenous mental health, and more. Outside of academia, Jaidyn is an avid reader and writer, enjoys alternative and hard rock, and her clinical interests are in forensics/corrections, trauma, and psychosis.
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Izzy Malik
Izzy is a third-year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program at Lakehead University. His research focuses on evaluating innovative e-mental health interventions, including mobile apps and generative artificial intelligence chatbots, as well as understanding broader patterns of online behaviour and digital well-being. He is also interested in addiction recovery, peer support and mutual-help programs, personality-matched interventions, and how individual differences shape engagement with digital technologies over time. His emerging neuroimaging research also examines how generative AI use and cognitive offloading may relate to brain systems involved in memory and executive functioning.
His current work includes a pilot/feasibility trial evaluating ChatGPT as a tool to support postsecondary student emotion regulation and a longitudinal study examining problematic social media use, online gaming, and sports betting among Canadian adults.
Izzy is a Fellow of the Digital, Inclusive, Virtual, and Equitable Research Training (DIVERT) in Mental Health Platform. Alongside his research, he is passionate about clinical work, supervision, and mentoring undergraduate students. Outside of academia, he is an avid tennis and basketball player and enjoys spending time with his partner, his Westie Winnie, and family.
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Angela MacIsaac
Angela began the PhD program in Clinical Psychology at Lakehead University in 2020. Prior to that, she also completed her Master’s degree under the supervision of Dr. Mushquash. Her MA thesis examined the benefits of journaling using a smartphone app, and she has also been involved in evaluating this smartphone app as a resilience-promoting tool more generally. Her doctoral research focuses on victimhood as a personality trait and its relationship to perceptions of trauma, daily interpersonal stress, and PTSD symptoms. She is also interested in teaching and has taught PSYC-3018 - Psychological Disorders in Adulthood at the undergraduate level. Angela’s graduate studies are supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She has previously been supported by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
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Vamika Mann
Vamika began the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Lakehead University in 2022. Her area of research involves investigating the effectiveness of a mental health and well-being-focused smartphone app for emerging adults. Vamika completed her Master’s in Clinical Psychology at Lakehead University in 2022. Her Master’s thesis focused on the role of stress and coping in the relationship between childhood adversity and alcohol outcomes among emerging adults. The Ontario Graduate Scholarship supports Vamika’s current graduate studies. Her work has previously been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Vamika has clinical experience in psychoeducational assessments with children and youth and assessment and intervention with adults.
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