Nathan Lutz is a post-doctoral fellow in the T32 General Pediatrics Research Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He earned his BA in psychology with a minor in neuroscience from Miami University in Oxford, OH. He worked as a clinical research coordinator at Cincinnati Children’s in the Child Welfare Research Lab from 2015 to 2017 before pursuing his doctorate in clinical psychology at Loyola University Chicago. At Loyola, he earned his MA in clinical psychology in 2020, his MS in applied statistics in 2022, and his PhD in clinical psychology with a child-clinical subspecialty in 2023. His dissertation used a structural equation modeling approach to examine how the development of positive relationships with caring adults is protective for children, especially those in the child welfare system. He completed his pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. He is certified as a within-agency trainer for parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) and is interested in continuing to develop, utilize, and improve evidence-based interventions, such as PCIT and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), throughout his career.