About me
Nadika Paranamana, Psy.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University School of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Connecticut Healthcare System. Dr. Paranamana’s work is grounded in humanistic-existential framework and is centered on justice, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging of marginalized, disenfranchised, and historically disadvantaged people and communities. She is a qualitative researcher dedicated to investigating lived experiences. Clinically, her work focuses on serious mental illnesses, especially psychosis and the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Dr. Paranamana received her doctorate in clinical psychology from University of Hartford and serves as Chair of the Ethnic Diversity Task Force (EDTF) at the Connecticut Psychological Association.