Samantha C. Holmes

Samantha C. Holmes is an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a PhD and MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of Akron and completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and a NIDA-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. Her clinical work spans diverse settings including domestic violence shelters, community mental health agencies, VA clinics, and college counseling centers.

• PhD, University of Akron
• MA, University of Akron
• BA, Lafayette College

Dr. Holmes’s research centers on women’s experiences of trauma, with a focus on culturally-relevant risk and protective factors, trauma-informed interventions for complex clinical presentations, and the conceptualization of oppression as a form of trauma. Her work also addresses health disparities and the mental health impacts of systemic injustice.

Her recent publications from 2019 to 2024 appear in high-impact journals such as Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, and Journal of Traumatic Stress. These works explore racial trauma, disordered eating in PTSD, the development of trauma inventories, and socioeconomic determinants of mental health, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary and socially engaged research agenda.

Dr. Holmes has no listed scientific awards in the provided text.

She draws upon her extensive clinical expertise in empirically-supported cognitive behavioral treatments for PTSD to inform both her teaching and research. There is no information available about student advising, grants, or lab affiliations.