Jacqueline Fahey, Psy.D., IFECMHS, is an Assistant Professor and the Program Director in the PsyD program at the Sacramento Campus. She has been with the Sacramento campus as a faculty member since 2021, and is a proud alumna of the Sacramento PsyD program as well, which allows her to have a unique and balanced perspective. Dr. Fahey completed her APA-accredited internship with a community mental health agency, Family Service and Guidance Center, in Topeka, Kansas. She then completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the UC Davis Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Clinic in Sacramento, California. She has previously held positions with Job Corps - Sacramento, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), Veterans Affairs (Mather), California State Prison – Sacramento, in addition to holding contracts doing psychological assessments to determine Social Security benefits.
Outside of her time with Alliant, she keeps her clinical skills sharp by maintaining an active private practice through contracts with Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health where she completes all of the psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and young adults, as well as court-appointed or contracted forensic evaluations.
Dr. Fahey is a proud graduate of the UC Davis Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship and is certified as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist (IFECMHS) in the state of California. She is also credentialed as a Health Service Psychologist with the National Register.
When not working, Dr. Fahey is an avid reader, passionate gardener, novice poet and photographer, perseverant runner, and loves being with her family (including her two pugs).
Dr. Fahey has participated in numerous research projects and teams; however, her primary research interest is in the field of health psychology. Dr. Fahey has been completing research in this field since her undergraduate career at SCU, where she was in a health psychology lab. In her graduate studies, Dr. Fahey was active in two labs: one related to health psychology and the other lab which focused on a project related to Veterans. In 2016, Dr. Fahey traveled with her fellow graduate students to rural villages in Vietnam to examine the impact of introducing health behavior change on the rates of parasitic disease. She then completed an additional qualitative research study that reviewed the impact of completing international research on graduate students' professional development. As a faculty member, she runs a health psychology research lab which actively involves students and explores various topics, pending on the interests of that specific team. She is particularly interested in the intersection of health, stigma, and marginalization.
In addition to her research experience, she has extensive training in working with children ages 0-5, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, trauma treatment, Motivational Interviewing, and Exposure and Response Prevention for anxiety disorders. She is also passionate about teaching, supervision, the professional development of graduate students, and social justice. Her theoretical orientation is eclectic, with influences from CBT, attachment, and feminist theory.
- IFECMHS from the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health
- California (2023) Psy.D. from California School Professional Psychology
- Sacramento (2019) M.A. from California School Professional Psychology, Sacramento (2017)
- B.S. from Santa Clara University (2014)
- Advanced Psychopathology
- Foundations of Psychotherapy
- Four-Course Dissertation Sequence
- Group Practicum Consultation
- Education, Consultation, and Advocacy
- Ethical Foundations of Clinical Practice
- Fahey, J., Newman, K., James, A., Lakey, J., Lakey, J., Duncan, J., James, J., Bennett, N. (2025, August). Stigma, Resiliency, & Spirituality: Exploring Potential Factors Impacting the Experience of Pregnancy Loss. Poster session presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Denver, Colorado.
- Wilder, E., Bokoch, R., Fahey, J., Lynch, N., Lander, A. (2025, July). Mental Health Screening, Trauma Experiences, and Postpartum Mental Health. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Postpartum Support International, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Bokoch, R., Fahey, J., Wilder, E., Lynch, N., Lander, A. (2025, July). Perinatal and Postpartum Mental Health Research Lab: Supporting Mothers, Babies, Partners, and Families Through Research and Collaboration. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Postpartum Support International, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Fahey, J. E. (2018). The Impact of the Mother-Son Relationship on Expressions of Aggression in Young Adulthood (Doctoral dissertation). CSPP at Alliant International University, Sacramento, CA. Defended Spring 2018.
- Fahey, J., Swanson, S., & Petersen, S. (2017, August). Imagine the Possibilities: The Impact of Conducting International Research. Poster session presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
- Burns, J., Swanson, S., Lor, M., Schlinger, J., Pasha, S., Galvez, V., Fahey, J., Schumacher, J., Nicholson, V., Bobb, K., Baity, M. (2017, March). The Use of the Ego-Resiliency Scale (ER89-R) in Measuring Resiliency Among Combat Veterans. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Francisco, California.
- Plante, T. G., Opezzo, M. A., Diaz, L. A., Pistoresi, S., Santos, M., Fahey, J. E., Kay, E., Britton, B., & Khan, S. (2014). ""The Influence of Exercise Environment and Gender on Mood and Exertion."" International Journal of Exercise Science, 7(3), 220-227.