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Monnica T. Williams
Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., is a mental health clinician and researcher.

Education
Dr. Williams graduated from MIT in 1992, with an SB degree in Electrical Engineering (Biomedical Technology) and a minor in Writing. She completed psychology courses at UCLA (1997-2000), where she attended as a part-time student. She obtained a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2003, with an emphasis in Adult Psychopathology. She completed her Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Virginia, where her dissertation was on the assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in African Americans.

Professional Experience
Dr. Williams worked for five years as a programmer-analyst at the UCLA Parallel Computing Laboratory (1995-2000). She has served as a volunteer counselor (1990-1996) and a psychotherapist (since 2001), with a primary cognitive-behavioral orientation. She completed a clinical psychology internship at McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital site (2006-2007), where she received additional training in psychodynamic techniques. Dr. Williams has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Virginia, where she taught several psychology courses, including Abnormal Psychology. She was an Assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2007-2011). She was an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville, where she served as the Director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities (2011-2016). She worked as an Associate Professor in Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut (2016-2019). She is now the Canada Research Chair for Mental Health Disparities at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Williams is also the Clinical Director of the Behavioral Wellness Clinic in Tolland, CT.

Research Interests
Dr. Williams research interests include race (African Americans, health disparities, racism), gender (reproductive issues, sexuality, pregnancy), mental illness (anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD), and psychometrics (ethnic differences, scale development). She has published research in peer-reviewed journals in these areas and presents regularly at scientific conferences.