Short Bio

Dr. Jennifer “Jenn” Veilleux is a Professor of Psychological Science at the University of Arkansas, and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Arkansas Biosciences Institute, the American Psychological Foundaiton, and the John Templeton Foundation She teaches courses on emotions/emotion regulation and personality for both graduate and undergraduate students. She also oversees graduate students learning how to conduct psychotherapy and psychological assessments. Her private practice is called Emotion Centered Psychological Services, which highlights her focus on emotions in her therapeutic work with adult individuals and couples.

Long Bio

Dr. Jennifer “Jenn” Veilleux is a Professor of psychological science at the University of Arkansas, and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Arkansas Biosciences Institute and the John Templeton Foundation. She was the 2024 recipient of the American Psychological Foundation Theodore Millon Grant in Personality Psychology. Her work focuses broadly on the emotional and motivational factors that undercut a wide variety of mental health conditions, with an aim towards facilitating more effective psychotherapy techniques. She is particularly interested in the beliefs that people hold about emotions, and in trying to improve people’s abilities to withstand and tolerate their aversive emotional states. As a professor, she also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on personality, statistics, personality assessment, emotion regulation, and she supervises graduate students learning how to conduct psychotherapy and psychological assessments in the in-house training clinic. Her private practice is called Emotion Centered Psychological Services, which highlights her focus on emotions in her therapeutic work with adult individuals and couples. Personally, Jenn loves watching TV, reading young adult fantasy, and listening to musical theater. She also has two kids aged 8 and 11 who she’s raising with her stay-at-home dad husband, where emotions and personality are regular topics of conversation at the dinner table.