PhD Candidate
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
Xi Pan, LICSW, MS, MPA is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she works under the mentorship of Dr. George A. Bonanno in the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab. She also holds a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, a Master of Social Work from Boston College, a Master of Public Administration from Pennsylvania State University, and a Bachelor of Public Administration from Soochow University, China.
Pan is currently a Graduate Student Research Assistant in the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program at McLean Hospital, contributing to NIMH-funded research examining the phenomenology, cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms, and clinical correlates of PTSD and dissociation. She is completing her Advanced Doctoral Practicum within McLean’s Trauma Continuum of Care, where she provides trauma-focused individual and group psychotherapy for individuals with PTSD, complex PTSD, and dissociative disorders across partial hospital and outpatient levels of care. Her clinical work integrates evidence-based, stage-based trauma treatments.
Prior to doctoral training, Pan worked for several years as an Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician at Boston Medical Center, delivering psychotherapy and crisis intervention within primary care settings and serving culturally diverse populations. Her clinical background informs her research program, which focuses on dissociation, trauma, and emotion regulation in daily life using mixed methods, including ecological momentary assessment, longitudinal modeling, and computational and natural language processing approaches. In addition to her academic and clinical roles, Pan serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Graduate Student Journal of Psychology at Columbia University. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Student Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2025).
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Profiling Dissociation: Demographic and Cognitive-emotional Differences Across Profiles
Monday, March 30, 2026
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM US Pacific Time