Dr. Suzanne Meunier of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychology will discuss conceptualizing and treatment of individuals with compulsive hoarding symptoms at a public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, April 19, at Ledbetter Hall Room B in the Donaghey Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.

The event is part of the UALR Department of Psychology’s Marie Wilson Howells Speaker Series.

Meunier will present an overview of hoarding concepts and empirically validated treatment approaches based on a recent book chapter she authored.

Before her stint as an instructor of psychology at Harvard, Meunier developed expertise in cognitive-behavioral therapy. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Arkansas and completing her pre-doctoral internship at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. She then received specialized training in research and treatment of anxiety disorders during a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn.

Upon completing her fellowship, Dr. Meunier co-founded a private practice that provides cognitive-behavioral therapy for children, adolescents, and adults who are suffering from anxiety and eating disorders in Hartford County. She also remained at the Institute of Living as a staff psychologist working on research investigating the development, maintenance, and treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder and treating children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety and obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders.

Meunier joined the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic in 2008. Her clinical interests include the treatment of OCD, panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and eating disorders. Her research interests include the “not just right” experience in OCD, information processing biases in anxiety disorders, and cognitive behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders.

For more information, contact Dr. Tommy H. Poling at 501-569-3589.