Clinical Director
Habit Design
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Dr. Maria Elena Lara is a leading clinical psychologist in the applied science of habit coaching. Since initiating clinical R&D in the field at Yale University thirty years ago, she has overseen the clinical development, evaluation, and validation of more than 100 evidence-based, peer-reviewed habit formation techniques at UCLA, University of Washington Medical School, and several EAP and employee wellbeing initiatives at Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Lara's most recent pre-publication research (which will be shared publicly for the first time exclusively at LM2024) has been conducted through a Fast Track research grant ($2 million) from the National Institutes of Health - the first in the field of habit coaching - in partnership with the University of Washington, TriHealth of Ohio, and MultiCare of Washington. Lara holds clinical psychology degrees from Yale (BA) and Stony Brook University (MA, PhD) and has served on the faculty of the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University. She is a Ford Foundation and W.B. Burghardt post-graduate research fellow and a member in good standing of the American Psychological Association and Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
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Master the Force of Habit: Breakthrough Methods from NIH That Accelerate New Habits in Just Six Days
Monday, October 28, 2024
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