Lynette Averill, PhD, on moving from counseling psychology to

Lynette Averill, PhD, on moving from counseling psychology to neuroscience, getting a Fulbright, and ketamine research

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Dr. Averill is an assistant professor in the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and research fellow in the clinical neurosciences division of the National Center for PTSD VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Her research focuses primarily on studying the neurobiological mechanisms involved in ketamine as a treatment for PTSD and suicidality. Although Dr. Averill originally got her degree in counseling psychology, she later made the switch to neuroscience, which is her current passion.

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