Erin Parks, PhD is a clinical psychologist, researcher, assistant professor, and entrepreneur and passionate about improving access to evidence-based mental health care. I co-founded Equip to bring effective, affordable, accessible care to everyone with eating disorders.

Parks describes her career path as a "twisty turny journey". As a marketing and communications major in undergrad, she took a job out of college marketing Broadway shows in tertiary markets. After quickly realizing that the work wasn’t for her, she decided to pursue a long-standing interest in the sciences, leading her to a neuroimaging research job at the NIH, and she started taking neuropsychology classes on the side. She fell in love with the work, fascinated by how the brain recovered following traumatic events, and began a PhD in clinical psychology at UC San Diego.

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