Bruna Martins-Klein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
USC Dornsife
Email: brunamar@usc.edu
Dr. Martins-Klein is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, and a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Martins-Klein completed her Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern California, and her clinical internship and fellowship in Geropsychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. She is the Director of the Neural Vitality Laboratory at the University of Southern California, which seeks to understand how processes like storytelling, collaborative reminiscence, and self-expression through the arts promote effective emotion regulation and well-being across the lifespan. Dr. Martins-Klein integrates cutting-edge physiological methods, such as fMRI, EEG, eyetracking, HRV, ecological momentary assessment, and self-report to clarify cognitive-emotion dynamics that support resilience at individual and interpersonal levels. Dr. Martins-Klein also supervises Ph.D-level therapy trainees providing psychotherapy to community older adults with mood disorders, trauma, caregiver distress, complex grief, and behavioral health struggles, such as insomnia and diabetes burnout. She co-facilitates an ongoing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) dementia caregiver skills group with her students through Alzheimer’s Los Angeles.
