Kirsten Klein, PhD

Kirsten G. Klein, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Florida in 2025 and completed her pre-doctoral internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. 

Klein's research aims to promote health equity for Black communities at the intersection of both physical and mental health. Her work is committed to identifying and ameliorating systemic barriers to accessing and utilizing healthcare. In addition, her work centers on the lived experience of those coping with and adjusting to chronic illness. She is particularly interested in community-engaged approaches that lead to the creation of culturally tailored interventions for Black communities with chronic pain across the lifespan.