

Joshua Plutchik
Personal Profile
My work centers on how evidence-based mental health interventions are built, adapted, and delivered to the people who need them, particularly in underserved communities.
I graduated magna cum laude from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where I built a concentration around psychology, media, culture, and communication. Much of my coursework was in psychological and cognitive science, but how psychological science gets communicated seemed as consequential to me as the science itself.
Since 2022, I have contributed to research on cognitive-behavioral therapy, mostly at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. In the ADAPT Lab, I work on prevention programs for adolescent anxiety and depression, and helped design and pilot the animated videos for the Mind Action Mood (M&M) Program, an 11-session adolescent intervention. In the MEAL Lab, I helped develop Mindful Courage, a digital mindfulness-based intervention for eating disorders, and delivered the full protocol. Across both labs, I manage and analyze study data. I have also recruited for the Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative's EQuIP trial, one of the largest mental health studies of sexual minority women, and worked at NYU's Love Smarter Lab, where I developed new research measures and contributed to grant writing.
I am also the Administrative Assistant to the President of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, an organization working to expand global access to evidence-based care. I support the President's office across organizational planning, international member communications, and governance, including preparations for World Congresses. I also lead WCCBT's communications across its website and social channels, where I introduced analytics-based reporting and have substantially grown engagement across platforms. Before this, I led editorial teams at NYU's student newspaper and directed communications for a nonprofit providing pro bono mental health care to frontline clinicians during COVID-19.
My research has appeared in the International Journal of Eating Disorders and the Journal of Medical Internet Research, where I am lead author on a systematic review and meta-analysis of digital mindfulness-based interventions. My work has been presented at the Eating Disorder Research Society, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the WCCBT World Congress. Additional manuscripts are currently in preparation.
When I am not working, you will find me behind a camera, spending time with my dog and two cats, or baking for friends and family.


