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Kendra Doychak, PhD (she/her/hers)

Doctoral Lecturer, Director of Forensic Psychology MA Program
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, New York, United States

Dr. Kendra Doychak is a Doctoral Lecturer and Director of the Forensic Psychology MA Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Graduate Center in 2022.

As an early career psychologist, Dr. Doychak conducts research in the area of gender-based violence, complex trauma, and interpersonal abuse dynamics. She has published on coercive control and what she argues is one potential consequence of this abuse dynamic: a trauma-coerced attachment marked by dissociative splits in identity and relational and cognitive capacities. In particular, she has developed and examined trauma-coerced attachment in the context of commercial sex exploitation, intimate partner violence, and cults. Dr. Doychak is interested in understanding the processes through which victims develop TCA, as well as how we can distinguish normative dependency from traumatic bonding. She is co-authoring a book on the measurement of coercive control with Dr. Raghavan. Her research has been used in the legal field by expert witnesses and DOJs and has been cited in amici curiae.

Dr. Doychak is also a practicing licensed clinical psychologist in the state of New York. She maintains a part-time clinical practice seeing patients for individual psychodynamic therapy and belongs to a group practice conducting forensic psychological assessments. Before joining John Jay, she worked in a variety of clinical settings such as forensic agencies, public hospitals, trauma-based organizations, and psychoanalytic institutes. Her pre-doctoral clinical internship was completed at Elmhurst Hospital Center | NYC Health + Hospitals, Mt. Sinai Services.

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