Betsy Stade

Besty Stade is a computational clinical psychologist and research scientist at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI working in the Computational Psychology and Well-Being and Fidelity, Adaptation, Sustainability, and Training labs. She did her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in the Boundaries of Anxiety and Depression lab. She is part of the World Well-Being Project, and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Her training in evidence-based therapies includes CBT for depression and insomnia, exposure therapy for the anxiety disorders, exposure and response prevention for OCD, and cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure for PTSD. She uses LLM, NLP, and machine learning to address questions about access to EBPs and detecting psychological processes in human language.