Rachelle is a third year doctoral student in the General-Clinical stream. Her program of research focuses on uncovering common factors that foster resilience and lower the risk of detrimental health behaviours and psychopathology. Specifically, she has led numerous research projects aimed at identifying factors that protect against body satisfaction and eating pathology. Rachelle's doctoral research is funded by the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Upon completing data collection in three local high schools and at a tertiary eating disorders program, she found that self-compassion predicted increases in body satisfaction and decreases in dietary restraint. In the community sample, psychological distress helped account for the relationships between these variables over a 4-month period. Over the course of her residency and professional career, Rachelle looks forward to broadening the scope of her research to increase the efficiency and dissemination of evidence-based interventions.