Chloe Drulis

Hello! I am a child development specialist, play therapist and graduate student of psychology. I have always been interested in the complexity of the human experience. The practical application of neuroscience to address these intricacies came to life in my training as a play therapist. I witnessed through experience that joy stimulates brain activation and learning, empathy regulates the nervous system, and relationships help manage stress responses. These realizations sparked my desire to study how the biological and social sciences can promote growth and well-being. Though many questions about the nuances of human behavior remain, I know one thing is true: everyone has a skillset, aspirations, and growth potential. It is the gap between potential and actualization—to understand and bridge it—that motivates me to keep exploring what it means to be human.

Carly Samuelson

Hi! I’m a writer and graduate student of psychology at Pepperdine. I began my career working in television and eventually decided that I was more fascinated with the people whose stories I was tasked with telling than the production itself. So began my love affair with psychology. I should have known this is where I might end up, but the mind is a tricky thing. It kept me wandering for quite some time, asking the very questions that would eventually become my life’s work: what does it mean to be human? How can we make sense of our trials and trauma? What really makes a person feel content? How does our body inform our minds? When I met Dr. Cozolino his work fundamentally shifted my entire frame of thinking. For the first time in my life, the questions that so consumed me had answers. He met each of my inquiries with research and anecdotes—all of which, would serve to contextualize my own human experience. My desire to know more about who and how we are continues to motivate the work that I do each day and my goal at Dr. Cozolino and Co. is simply to keep asking big questions and sharing what we’ve learned.