Teaching

I experience my role as an faculty member as an extension of my identity as a clinical psychologist. Although the relationship between student and faculty is different than the relationship between client and therapist, there are some important parallels:

• Learning, like therapeutic change, occurs within the context of relationship - the relationship between faculty and student and the relationships between students.

• Learning should change the unhelpful assumptions we have about ourselves and the world, in much the same way that therapy helps to undermine faulty assumptions client carry about themselves.

• Learning is a transformative process by which both student and faculty are changed. Similarly, in a meaningful psychotherapy, both client and therapist are transformed.

• Like therapy, learning involves the integration of many aspects of who we are, including cognitive, emotional, behavioral, somatic, cultural, and spiritual elements.
  
  

In my faculty role in the Department of Counseling, I primarily work with students in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. However in the core classes I teach, I do work with our School Counseling students as well. 

Below is a list of classes that I often teach in the Counseling Department.