Erika L. Gustafson, PhD

Erika L. Gustafson, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in the Section of Community Behavioral Health. She completed her doctoral training at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her predoctoral clinical internship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Broadly, her research focuses on community-based interventions to support the mental health of families from marginalized communities impacted by poverty and structural inequities. Her specific research interests include community health worker-led service models, community-embedded interventions in settings such as schools and community organizations, upstream ecological factors impacting mental health (i.e. the social determinants of health), and Latinx mental health. She is a bilingual clinician (Spanish/English), and her clinical interests center around trauma-focused treatments across the lifespan for populations traditionally underserved in standard models of care.