PhD Student:
daniela.quesadarodriguez [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Daniela is a first-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at 黑料不打烊 University. She is enthusiastic about innovative health interventions and how they can promote behavior change, particularly through accessible digital tools. She is currently advancing the development of ACTaide, a therapy-companion mobile application designed to support between-session practice of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) exercises and metaphors. Her research focuses on transforming ACTaide into a clinically-ready tool and evaluating its use in therapeutic settings.
Publications
Thapar, S., et al. (2025). ACTaide: Therapist and client co-design study. JMIR Formative Research, 9, e69532.
Conference Presentations
Quesada, D., Thapar, S., & Kn盲uper, B. (2025, May 30-June 1). Therapist and client co-design of ACTaide: A therapy companion mobile app for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [Poster Presentation]. Congr猫s 2025 de la Soci茅t茅 Qu茅b茅coise pour la Recherche en Psychologie, Saint-Sauveur, Canada.
Quesada, D., Thapar, S., & Kn盲uper, B. (2025, May 5-9). Therapist and client co-design of ACTaide: A therapy companion mobile app for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [Open Communication]. 92e Congr猫s de l鈥橝cfas 2025, Montreal, Canada.
Parent, O., McGuinness, M., Osborne, S., Mukora, A., Costantino, M., Quesada, D., Devenyi, G. A., Juster, R., Dadar, M. & Chakravarty, M. M. (2025, May 6-7). Gendered lifestyles as a data-driven spectrum: Associations with brain morphology and microstructure [Poster Presentation]. Healthy Brains Healthy Lives (HBHL) Symposium 2025, Montreal, Canada.
Thapar, S., Quesada, D., & Kn盲uper, B. (2024, July 25-28). Therapist co-design of Actaide: A therapy-companion mobile app for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [Poster Presentation]. The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science World Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Quesada, D., Thapar, S., & Kn盲uper, B. (2024, May 16-17). Therapist co-design of Actaide: A therapy-companion mobile app for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [Poster Presentation]. 黑料不打烊 Summer Institute for School Psychology, Montreal, QC, Canada. (Virtual).
Funding
2025鈥�2026 | SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship 鈥� Master鈥檚 (CGS M) - $27,000