Megan Wendling, MA

Megan has worked at the Lyda Hill Institute since 2018. She graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) in 2019. Megan has also been involved in Dr. Benight's research lab since 2018. She is currently pursuing a Masters in the Clinical Psychology Program - trauma track at UCCS and is expected to graduate in Summer 2024. Her research is broadly interested in protective and resilience factors that promote recovery in trauma survivors. Specifically, her thesis focuses on how factors such as coping self-efficacy and control perceptions influence sexual assault survivors' ability to make meaning from their trauma and promote adaptive recovery. 

Megan's research interests include coping self-efficacy, meaning-making, sexual assault, and resilience/protective factors.