Dr. Nicole DeTore, a clinical and research psychologist, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Research for the Resilience and Prevention Program (RAPP). She joined the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Department faculty in 2020.

Dr. DeTore completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University, her APA predoctoral internship at UCSD and the San Diego VA, and her doctorate at Alliant University in Los Angeles, CA. Throughout graduate school, she worked in community mental health centers in Los Angeles County as a clinician supporting those with serious mental illnesses and prior to her PhD, Dr. DeTore worked for 8 years at the UCLA Aftercare Research Program, a first episode psychosis research program, as a clinician and researcher.

Within RAPP, Dr. DeTore currently focuses on developing and studying interventions that can prevent the onset or reduce the severity of serious mental illnesses. Along with the RAPP team, she has tested resilience-building interventions for college students and healthcare providers across multiple delivery methods, including in-person, Zoom, and virtual reality. She spearheaded the virtual reality app development for group-based care delivery.

Dr. DeTore has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Psychological Medicine, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, Journal of Psychiatric Research, and Psychiatry Research. She currently has an NIMH grant to develop a resilience-based intervention for high school students and another grant to study the fidelity of Massachusetts first episode psychosis programs to evidence-based models of care.