Kailey Roberts, PhD

Dr. Kailey Roberts (she/her) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and a Consultant Faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), focusing on bereavement and palliative psychology. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research and completed her pre-doctoral internship and a postdoctoral fellowship in geropsychology at the Brooklyn VA. She has specialized training in psycho-oncology and bereavement through National Cancer Institute-funded predoctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships at MSK. Currently, Dr. Roberts is leading research on bereavement risk screening, perinatal loss, and bereavement in chosen families, and is a collaborator on projects related to tailoring interventions for bereaved parents, LGBTQIA+-affirming palliative care, geropsychology training, and grief-informed healthcare. Additionally, she has over a decade of expertise in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), serving as an interventionist, a qualitative methods specialist on adaptation studies, and a training facilitator. Cutting across her work is an investment in optimizing and implementing supports for individuals facing existential distress. In addition to her research and teaching pursuits, Dr. Roberts maintains a clinical practice working with cancer caregivers and bereaved individuals.