Solana Segal (she/her/hers)

Solana is a third-year doctoral student in UCSB’s Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology program, with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology. Her clinical interests include suicide prevention, identity development, relationship concerns, supporting neurodivergent students, and helping clients navigate life transitions. She is especially passionate about working with multiracial and LGBTQ+ communities and strives to provide culturally responsive, affirming, and strengths-based care. Her primary theoretical orientation is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Her clinical training has included individual therapy through the Hosford Counseling and Psychological Services Clinic and the Healing Space, as well as conducting autism evaluations with adults at the Koegel Autism Center.

Outside of her clinical work, Solana’s research focuses on multiracial mental health, suicidality, monoracism, LGBTQ+ identity, and activism. She is also involved in graduate student advocacy and mentorship at UCSB. In her free time, she enjoys camping, spending time with loved ones, trying new restaurants and coffee shops, and training for her first half marathon.

Publications: Krueger, N. T., Segal, S., & Gomez, M. (in press). In between and becoming: Monoracism, mental health, and resilience among Multiracial American emerging adults. In A. Nishina, S. E. Gaither, & L. Kiang (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of Multiracial youth and families (pp. 166–191). Cambridge University Press.

Manuscript Under Review

Krueger, N. T., Segal, S., Lagbo, V., Arana, M. A., Ekpo, J., Lopez-Sosa, D., Mbamo, S., Hudson, N., Beckstein, A., Chapman-Hilliard, C., Zelaya, D. G., & Hsu, H. H. (2026). Making the invisibilized count: The Survivance/Sankofa collective healing framework as community-generated challenge to the HSKS [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.