
Margot Paul, Psy.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Margot Paul graduated from
the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium in 2022, where she won the award for Outstanding
Overall Student (2021). She completed her clinical
psychology doctoral internship at the Sepulveda VA in Los Angeles. She is
currently a clinical psychology postdoctoral fellow in the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she is
continuing her research on using VR as a method of engaging in behavioral
activation for individuals with depression.
Dr. Paul began her VR work in 2017
after joining Dr. Kim Bullock’s Virtual Reality-Immersive Technology Clinic
& Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford School of Medicine. For her doctoral dissertation, Dr. Paul designed a
feasibility study and three-arm pilot randomized controlled trial to examine
the feasibility of using a VR headset as a way to administer behavioral
activation therapy for participants with a diagnosis of major depressive
disorder. She presented her research findings as a speaker at Shift
Medical 2021: Virtual Medical XR Congress and Expo (2021)
and at Stanford Psychiatry Grand Rounds (2022). Dr.
Paul also won the Cheryl Koopman
Dissertation of the Year Award. Dr. Paul
has worked and consulted with VR companies and local Bay Area startups in the
technology and mental health space. She has published on her virtual reality
work.