Roxanne Vandermause, PhD, RN, CARN, is a nurse researcher and educator. She is an assistant professor at Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing where she teaches community health nursing and addictions. Her research includes phenomenological methods, including hermeneutic and portraiture methodologies.  She is currently working on projects related to women's alcohol use disorders and assessment in primary health care settings, and is developing representations of a woman's experience with methamphetamine addiction using multiple expressive mediums.  She has authored a number of publications and has presented her research nationally.

Research as method, takes many forms. So, too, can the use of research in Psychosynthesis take various forms.

Questions about theory and practice are engaged in the realm of research. Research is a tool for thinking about and evaluating the frameworks of our understandings and the processes of our human work. For those questioners seeking a systematic form of inquiry through research, Roxanne Vandermause is available to consult with, mentor, or collaborate over matters related to research of, for, or using Psychosynthesis.