Aleeza West

Aleeza West is a fourth-year majoring in Psychology. Under the faculty mentorship of Dr. Michelle Craske and the support of the Keck Foundation, Aleeza will be completing her thesis through the Psychology Departmental Honors Program. Her thesis focuses on the effect of fear generalization on social fear, avoidance, and functional impairment amongst individuals with social anxiety disorder. After graduating from UCLA, Aleeza plans to obtain a clinical psychology PhD and conduct research on anxiety and depression disorders, specifically focusing on positive and negative valence systems and how we can use people’s differences in underlying mechanisms to tailor treatment.