Our Team
Our university training clinic is a setting where graduate students who are training to become school psychologists gain hands-on experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. They provide services like learning assessments, behavior support, and counseling, all while being closely supervised by licensed professionals. This model provides the opportunity for our students to learn and grow, while also offering helpful, low-cost services to the community.
Kayleigh Brennan, Ph.D
Clinic Director, Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Kayleigh Brennan is a clinical-line professor in the School Psychology Program. She earned her Ph.D. from our program in 2022, and following her post-doctoral residency, Dr. Brennan returned to serve as our clinical training director. Though early in her career, Dr. Brennan brings valuable knowledge she gained by working as an elementary school psychologist in addition to her clinical-based work. Dr. Brennan is passionate about assessment and prioritizes understanding the whole child. She strives to provide clients with a comprehensive understanding of their strengths and areas of need while providing practical, evidence-based strategies to support their growth and unlock their potential, encouraging her students to do the same. While Dr. Brennan’s primary roles include teaching and supervision of our students, in addition to direct service provision with clients and their families, she looks forward to expanding her research profile. Dr. Brennan’s research interests include understanding the “female phenotype” of autism, and identifying characteristics that contribute to successful family-school partnerships, especially as they relate to early identification and service provision.
Ashlyn Peters, M.Ed.
Student Assistant Clinic Director
Ashlyn Peters is a doctoral student in the School Psychology program at the University of Utah. She completed her undergraduate degree at Utah State University, where she majored in Psychology and minored in Mathematics. She has a strong background in math tutoring as she previously worked as the Math Specialist at an elementary school in West Valley City, as well as a Center Director for a franchise of math learning centers across Utah. Ashlyn is very interested in psychological assessment, therapy, and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. She loves working with children, adolescents, and their families to help them find answers as well as solutions to life's challenges.
Student Clinicians
Our clinicians are doctoral or education specialist level students in the school psychology program here at the U. Each student clinician is supervised by a licensed psychologist, who oversees the assessment, conceptualization, and diagnostics of each case.