Hi, I'm Ashleigh Golden

💬 About Me

I recently moved on from my role as Director of Translational Science and Clinical Content at Woebot Health, where I drove a rigorous process of innovation for a digital mental health product for adolescent, adult, and maternal depression and anxiety, guiding the full clinical product development cycle of from discovery to therapeutic product strategy to development and implementation to evaluation and iterative refinement in a highly collaborative, user-centered context. Prior to that, as Clinical Therapy Product Director at Lark Health, I honed my skills in clinical product design, development, and implementation for a chatbot for users with chronic conditions including pre-diabetes, diabetes, and hypertension. I’m a Stanford-trained clinical psychologist licensed in several US states and registered in BC, Canada. I’ve had a long career in behavioral/mental health tech as well as supervision and direct clinical practice before that. I have served in digital behavioral health leadership roles at Woebot, Lark, Brightside Health, and Youtube/Google and consulted to or served as board advisor to atai Life Sciences, Oxford VR, Redesign, Meru Health, Healthline, atai, BeMe, Wonder Sciences, and more. I particularly enjoy empowering non-psychologist cross-functional teammates (product managers, designers, writers, data scientists, engineers, UX researchers, etc.) with implementation guidance to digest and operationalize evidence-based therapeutic mechanisms into digital health products and optimizing products for uptake, meaningful engagement, enactment of behaviors outside the app, adherence, clinical fidelity and quality, effectiveness/outcomes, and cultural responsiveness. I enjoy sourcing and managing panels of KOLs and SMEs, synthesizing and prioritizing generative and evaluative input to inform product development. I recently completed a year-long Advanced Professional Certificate in Behavioral Insights from the UBC Sauder School of Business, leveraging applied b

💼 Professional Portfolio

🎓 Education and Qualifications

Fairleigh Dickinson University Postdoctoral MS in Clinical Psychopharmacology, expected 2025 Advanced Professional Certificate in Behavioral Insights University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium PsyD, MS Smith College BA Classical Languages & Linguistics

🚀 Relevant Skills

- Designing and refining clinical content, product, and program strategy and development in cross-functional contexts in broad range of therapeutic areas - Optimizing clinical products and programs for engagement and outcomes through applied behavioral science - Building, leading, supervising, and scaling remote clinical networks, including generating and implementing quality management frameworks and creating people-centered, engaging clinical cultures - Sourcing and overseeing KOL and SME panels to inform product and program development - Providing and supervising the evidence-based treatment of anxiety-related, obsessive-compulsive, mood, and sleep disorders - Managing crises and resolving escalations in fast-paced environments in close communication with executive leadership - Conducting comprehensive reviews of scientific literature and competitive landscape and presenting in digestible format Designing, executing,

🔬 Research Projects & Publications

Digital Therapeutics Alliance. (2022). Setting the Stage for a Fit-For-Purpose DTx Evidentiary Standard. https://dtxalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DTA-Clinical-Evidence-Paper_12.22.pdf Golden, A. (2011). Wrestling with the beaver: The alternative of absurd exposure. The Behavior Therapist, 34(5), 87-90. Golden, A. (2011). Hidden and forbidden: Psychologists’ psychopathology and its revelation. The National Psychologist, 20(6), 19. Golden, A., Haynes, W. C., VanDyke, M, & Pollard, C. A. (2016). Treatment of aggressive obsessions in an adult with obsessive-compulsive disorder (p. 55-67). In A. Lewin & E. Storch (Eds), Clinical Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Case-Based Approach to Treating Pediatric and Adult Populations. New York: Springer International Publishing. Golden, A, & Holaway, R. M. (2013). Values-focused exposure and response prevention in the treatment of comorbid schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder: The case of “Mr. H”. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy; 9(1), 65-80. Golden, A., & Pollard, C.A. (2014). Cognitive restructuring with a focus on Social Anxiety Disorder: A Review of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety (DVD). PsycCRITIQUES, 59 (37). Palesh O., Kamen, C,. Sharp, S., Golden, A., Neri, E., Spiegel, D., & Koopman, C. (2017, July 19). Physical activity and survival in women with breast cancer. Cancer Nursing, Epub 2017 Jul 19.

🏆 Awards & Achievements

AWARDS All-Star Community Builder, Therapists in Tech, 2021 - Winner, Hackathon for Mental Health, Twitter/PubNub, San Francisco, CA, 2019 CERTIFICATIONS • Applied Digital Health Ethics, Digital Medicine Society, 2023 • Canadian Register of Health Service Psychologists, 2022 • Certificate, Behavioural Insights, University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business, 2022 • Certificate, Behavioural Economics in Action, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, 2021 • Certificate, Designing Nudges, Impactually, 2021 • Certificate, Behavioral Design for Health Specialization Bootcamp, Irrational Labs, 2021 • Telebehavioral Health Certificate, American Board of Telehealth, 2021 • Health Service Psychologist, National Register of Health Service Psychologists, 2014-Present • Telebehavioral Health Institute Certification Level 1, 2019 • Diplomate, Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT), 2015 • Graduate, International OCD Foundation, Advanced Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) II: Treatment Engagement, Ambivalence, and Resistance, 2015 • Graduate, International OCD Foundation, Behavior Therapy Training Institute: Pediatric OCD, 2015 • Graduate, International OCD Foundation, Behavior Therapy Training Institute: Adult OCD, 2015 • Graduate, International OCD Foundation, Behavior Therapy Training Institute: Hoarding, 2014 • Graduate, TLC Foundation For Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, Professional Training Institute, 2014