Lucy Finkelstein-Fox

Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, PhD, is a psychologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (MGH/HMS). She earned her PhD at the University of Connecticut, with specializations in Health Psychology and Quantitative Research Methods and completed her clinical internship in Behavioral Medicine at MGH/HMS. Dr. Finkelstein-Fox is currently funded by a research fellowship in Oncology Population Sciences (NCI T32) at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Her research focuses on stress and coping processes that impact adjustment to cancer and other chronic illnesses, with a special focus on women’s sexual health and intimacy following cancer treatment. Dr. Finkelstein-Fox is also interested in development and applications of mind-body and cognitive-behavioral interventions to enhance resilient adjustment to major life stressors such as the transition to cancer survivorship. She provides cognitive-behavioral therapy to adults coping with chronic stress and medical illness through MGH’s Behavioral Medicine program.