Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Kentucky

M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Kentucky

​B.A. in Psychology, Grinnell College

I am an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky, and I Co-Direct our Clinical Psychology training program. I serve in a Special Title Series position. My academic work centers on training doctoral students to master the competencies needed to be effective clinical psychologists and health services providers, and on the synthesis of research and clinical skills.   I’m also interested in multicultural competencies, opportunities, and training in working with people who have varied backgrounds and identities. I coordinate our external practicum training and serve as the faculty liaison for those experiences. I am licensed as a psychologist in Kentucky and hold a health service provider designation.

I bring expertise in clinical supervision, refugee and immigrant mental health, trauma and torture recovery, and multicultural competencies. For almost a decade I served as a mental health specialist doing pro bono work at the Survivors of Torture Recovery Center in Louisville, KY; I continue to do some pro bono work in this area. I provide community training, consultation, and clinical supervision for junior clinicians and have periodically served as co-instructor and psychology team supervisor at the University of Kentucky for global health initiatives. I value interdisciplinary work and meeting student needs to facilitate learning.

For applicants to our clinical psychology doctoral program, please note that I do not run a lab or take on students as a research mentor.  I work with all of our clinical students through clinical supervision, course work, professional development and clinical aspects of training.

I'm excited to offer an undergraduate course for the first time in over a decade in Spring 2025. The capstone/senior seminar course for undergraduates will be PSY 561 Evidence-based Mental Health. This course will look at the topic of evidence-based mental health. Students will finish this course with an understanding of what current evidence suggests works and does not work to address mental health. The goal of this course is to stimulate critical thinking about mental health. Students will gain in in-depth understanding of the scientific literature related to mental health – what evidence we have about what works to create and maintain mental health, for whom, and where the questions and next steps in the science lie. 

At the doctoral level, I teach our beginning graduate students Introduction to Clinical Psychology, which covers evidence-based relationship building skills and needed pre-practicum information and skills. I also teach our PSY 636 Therapy Course in combination with a beginning PSY 637 Practicum/Supervision course. When I have time in my schedule, I love to teach an advanced practicum course.

Office hours: I'm in my office or at our training clinic on most days.  Please feel free to drop by when my door is open or email to arrange a specific time to meet, if that is more convenient.