Dr. Heberle is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Clark University. She received an A.B. in English from Harvard University in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2017. She completed her clinical internship at Yale University and her postdoctoral training at Boston College. Dr. Heberle has been at Clark since 2018.

Dr. Heberle’s research focuses on children’s mental health functioning within systems of racism and classism. She is interested in how children and families think about their own identities within social systems, how they resist oppression, and how they thrive in spite of oppression. Related to these interests, she has studied early education programs, school-based student support programs, and sociopolitical constructs like critical consciousness. She is also interested in interpersonal strategies that support thriving for marginalized and oppressed children through parent-child, teacher-child, and child-child relationships. In addition, she is interested in allyship development among children holding positions of privilege and in theoretical considerations related to allyship/accomplice-ship as indicators of social-emotional wellness for such children. Within this area of research, Dr. Heberle and her collaborators have developed and are currently testing a model for supporting White parents who aspire to engage in authentic, active anti-racist parenting with their young children. In addition to her other interests, Dr. Heberle maintains a strong interest in early childhood mental health particularly as it relates to trauma and poverty. She uses a range of qualitative and quantitative methods in her research. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the American Psychological Association.