Allyson Washburn, Ph.D.

Allyson received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Johns Hopkins University. She has conducted applied research with diverse populations for over 30 years. She has been principal investigator on grants from the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association. Her current research and scholarly interests include the phenomenology of becoming and being an older person, person-centered therapy and care, self-transcendent emotions, and assessing transformative learning. Allyson has been an adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and is currently Associate Professor in National University’s Psychology Department where she teaches in the BA in psychology and the MA in human behavior programs.