Dr. Dilara Ally (she/her) integrates clinical social work and data science expertise together as a postdoctoral associate at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. Specializing in trauma, depression and anxiety, her research explores how Internal Family Systems influences attachment, inner compassion and perspective-taking in trauma recovery. Dilara is guided by equity-centered intervention development, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to study self-related processes underlying treatment effectiveness, with a focus on amplifying patient voices. A two-decade Buddhist meditation practice has profoundly shaped her research and therapeutic approach, grounding it in acceptance and compassion.
