About the Clinic
PURPOSE AND MISSION
The SMU Psychology Clinic is a non-profit training clinic housed within SMU’s Department of Psychology. The mission of the Clinic is threefold: 1) to provide training in the competent and ethical practice of clinical psychology; 2) to offer high-quality, affordable psychological services to the Dallas-Fort Worth area as service to the community; and 3) to support clinical research and dissemination of evidence-based practice.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
Our clinicians are doctoral students in the APA-accredited Clinical Psychology program at SMU, who are supervised by licensed clinical psychologists and/or SMU faculty members. For educational and training purposes, all psychological services are video-recorded. Video-recordings are kept in secure physical and electronic locations along with all other clinic records and are only viewed by relevant clinicians and supervisors.
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVE CARE
The SMU Psychology Clinic is committed to providing professional, confidential services to individuals from all backgrounds. Our clinicians and supervising psychologists adhere to the highest standards of cultural intelligence and treat all clients as valued and respected individuals with unique experiences. We strive to maintain a professional environment that honors and accepts all types of cultural and individual differences and to provide services that are consistent with our clients’ personal preferences.
SUPERVISORS
Dr. Poonam Dubal
Dr. Dubal is a Licensed Psychologist (LP) and Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) with the Texas Behavioral Executive Council (Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists) and the Clinic Director at SMU's Psychology Clinic. She is also a Nationally Certified School Psychologist through the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).
Dr. Dubal earned her doctorate in School Psychology from Loyola University Chicago (APA-Accredited). She completed her doctoral training at Cypress Fairbanks ISD (APA-Accredited) and postdoctoral training at Irving ISD and Momentous Institute in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Dubal serves on the board of the Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas. She is a Certified Mindfulness Instructor through Mindful Schools and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Dr. Dubal works with a private, group practice, Carewright Clinical Services, where she conducts full psychological, psychoeducational, autism diagnostic, and neuropsychological assessments. She also provides therapy services, utilizing a person-centered approach, along with cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness-based interventions.
Dr. Alicia Meuret
Prof. Dr. Alicia E. Meuret, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist with the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists and the Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center (ARC) at SMU. She is a tenured Full Professor in the Clinical Psychology Division at the Department of Psychology at SMU.
Dr. Meuret completed her doctoral studies at Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and her postdoctoral studies at the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard University, and the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University.
Her research program focuses on novel treatment approaches for anxiety and mood disorders, biomarkers in anxiety disorders and chronic disease (asthma), fear extinction mechanisms of exposure therapy, and mediators and moderators in individuals with affective dysregulations, including non-suicidal self-injury. Dr. Meuret is the founder of Capnometry-Assisted Respiratory Training (CART).
Dr. Meuret has published 90 scientific publications and has received ongoing funding for her work from the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies (>$10 M), including NIH R01, U, and R61/33 grants. Additionally, she has authored 152 presentations at scientific conferences, including 23 invited talks, keynote and plenary addresses, and psychiatry grand rounds. Dr. Meuret served on several NIH review and federal and scientific expert advisory boards. She was president of the International Society of the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology. Dr. Meuret has received multiple honors for her work, including by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, the Psychiatric Research Society, and the American Psychosomatic Society.
Dr. Meuret is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, was past president of ISARP and the Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She also served as a technical expert for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Effective Health Care Program. Dr. Meuret is a 2014 Beck Institute Fellow and a 2018 Rotunda SMU Outstanding Professors. Dr. Meuret serves on several editorial boards and was an Associate Editor for the journal Behavior Therapy and guest editor for the International Journal of Psychophysiology.
Media interviews, podcasts, and publications featuring Dr. Meuret’s work include NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Huffington Post, Department of Health and Human Services, the Atlantic. Dr. Meuret is also a licensed clinical psychologist who maintains a small private practice.