Erik Reinbergs

Biography

I'm an assistant professor in the School Psychology program at Utah State University, where I lead the Suicidology Lab. My research focuses on suicide and self-harm, along with related topics such as depression, borderline personality features, and lethal means safety. I use quantitative methods to advance our understanding of how to help youth, young adults, families, and school communities build lives they experience as worth living. I'm especially interested in improving how we measure self-harm and related constructs.

I'm also a licensed psychologist in Utah and a nationally certified school psychologist. I'm passionate about third-wave behavioral therapies, particularly dialectical behavior therapy: I was fortunate to receive excellent DBT training in graduate school, previously supervised a clinical externship in full-protocol adolescent DBT at the Sorenson Center for Clinical Excellence, and teach a graduate course on DBT.

I completed my PhD in school psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and my doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship in Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. Before joining USU, I was an assistant professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, in the combined clinical/school psychology doctoral program and the specialist-level school psychology program.

I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students and I'm always glad to hear about potential collaborations from other researchers.

You can learn more on my website, which includes information about the Suicidology Lab and my CV.