Dr. Natalie Bennett is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Clinical Training of the clinical PsyD program on the Sacramento campus. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada- Reno (UNR), where her research focused on forensic concepts related to child sexual abuse. She completed internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the CAARE Center at UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, providing intervention and assessment for children and families with histories of abuse, neglect, or involvement in the foster care system. 

Dr. Bennett’s primary interests remain centered around child maltreatment, forensics, and trauma therapy. A proud Latina, she has additional interest in supportinghealth equity for underserved populations. Her research has explored areas such as the treatment acceptability of parenting programs among Latina mothers andthe undersampling of ethnoracial minority participants in trauma treatment efficacy studies. Given Dr. Bennett’s love for math and science, she holds weeklyDissertation Office Hours available to all students in the program and teaches the two-course Research Methods & Statistics sequence.

In addition to Dr. Bennett’s experience in academia, she has worked as a pediatric psychologist within a primary care clinic in Oregon, providing integratedbehavioral health care to children from birth to 18. Although her passion lies in working with youth and families, she also has extensive clinical and teachingexperience in adult behavioral health, particularly in adult trauma exposure therapies.