Dr. Hannah Raila is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, where she directs the Emotion Cognition and Psychopathology Lab, and she holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She earned her B.A. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Yale University, and she completed her clinical training at Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford University. For over 10 years, she has taught courses on psychotherapy and the science of emotion that are regularly waitlisted at their institutions. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications on treatments for and underlying mechanisms of psychopathology, and she developed and tested a novel virtual reality (VR) intervention for hoarding disorder. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has been featured in *National Geographic, Psychology Today, Stanford Medicine News, *and *Yale Scientific*. She holds a teaching award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and she believes in the importance of high-quality clinical care. Towards that end, she aims to provide a behind-the-scenes look into how psychotherapies are developed in order to help her students be better informed consumers of psychotherapy.