Chloe Greenbaum, Ph.D.
Dr. Chloe Greenbaum is the Founder and Director of Psychology Doctoral Prep — a consulting practice she built in 2014 after wishing, as a doctoral applicant herself, that this kind of individualized guidance had existed.
In 2012, Chloe applied to clinical and counseling psychology doctoral programs and was accepted to multiple programs, including her top choice: a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program that admitted three applicants from a pool of over 300. During her doctoral training, Chloe directly supervised and mentored more than 20 undergraduate and Master's students and served as Professional Development Advisor for a research team of over 30 members. As Faculty Liaison, she attended program faculty meetings focused on the doctoral admissions process and met with applicants who were interviewing for her program, giving her an unusually clear view of what admissions committees are actually looking for and what makes a candidate memorable.
Chloe is passionate about supporting aspiring psychologists and is dedicated to helping applicants market themselves and their impressive strengths in order to achieve their professional goals. Chloe's mentoring style is hands-on, individually tailored, and deeply personal. She is a strong writer and editor whose academic work has earned awards and been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, and she brings that same precision and care to every personal statement, CV, and application she works on with clients.
Outside of PDP, Chloe manages Premier Psychology Group, a psychotherapy practice with psychologists in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and teaches graduate courses in the Applied Psychology department at NYU. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College, graduating cum laude with departmental high honors. Chloe obtained her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from NYU and completed her clinical internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.
Kara Dastrup, M.S.
Kara Dastrup is the Doctoral Consultant at Psychology Doctoral Prep and is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington.
Kara is passionate about advising and mentoring future psychologists and therapists, especially those with non-traditional paths to graduate school (much like herself!). Kara enjoys meeting with PDP clients early in their process of considering graduate school to demystify the process and to help identify types of programs that would afford them the training they seek and a career they would love. She brings her clinical acumen to her coaching, often working with clients to identify barriers that are interfering with their ability to approach and complete tasks that feel daunting. Additionally, Kara is a strong editor, providing direct and highly detailed feedback in order to help clients craft their life experiences into a compelling narrative for their personal statements.
Upon graduating from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Philosophy, Kara began working in law as a paralegal while completing her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Pre-Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University. She assisted in forensic research prior to leaving law and working as a Lab Manager at Northwestern for two years, splitting her time between a cognitive-neuroscience lab and a social psychology lab. At the University of Washington, Kara’s research focuses on the study of clinical supervision, measurement-based care, and the training in and implementation of evidence-based treatments in community mental health settings. Kara will be completing her predoctoral clinical internship at the Puget Sound VA in Seattle, WA.