Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy

Faculty and Staff

Staff

Annie Runke

Annie Runke

  • Office Manager

320-308-2160 | fax 320-308-3216 | B210 Education Building
andrea.runke@stcloudstate.edu

Michael Libby

Michael Libby

  • Rehabilitation Studies Grant Director

320-308-4750 | A259 Education Building
michael.libby@stcloudstate.edu

Faculty

Khadija Ali

Khadija Ali

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education and Supervision, Wayne State University

320-308-4813 | 202R Brown Hall
kali@stcloudstate.edu

Aeriel A. Ashlee

Aeriel A. Ashlee

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. Student Affairs in Higher Education, Miami University of Ohio

320-308-4169 | A270 Education Building
aeriel.ashlee@stcloudstate.edu

Thea Baker

Thea Baker

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D School Counseling, University of Florida

320-308-2992 | A281 Education Building
tdbaker@stcloudstate.edu

Erin Berzins

Erin Berzins

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education and Supervision from Antioch University Seattle
  • LMHC, Washington State
  • Clinical focus are interpersonal trauma, attachment, and emotional overcontrol.  She has worked extensively with kids and adolescents, as well as in eating disorder care.

320-308-5776 | Brown Hall 202T
rebecca.berzins@stcloudstate.edu

Eunju Choi

Eunju Choi

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. Industrial and Organizational Behavior Management, Western Michigan University
  • Applied behavior analysis, behavior-based instructional design, performance management 

320-308-4865 | B243 Education Building
eunju.choi@stcloudstate.edu

Susan Parault Dowds

Susan Parault Dowds

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Educational Psychology, University of Georgia
  • Literacy, language development

320-308-2078 | A276 Education Building
spdowds@stcloudstate.edu

Amy Hebert Knopf

Amy Hebert Knopf

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Arkansas
  • Deaf, hard of hearing, women and disability, and disability within the LGBT population.

320-308-3209 | A209 Education Building
ahknopf@stcloudstate.edu

Byung Jin Kim

Byung Jin Kim

  • Fixed Term Professor
  • Ph.D. Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Kentucky

320-308-2182 | A263 Education Building
byungjin.kim@stcloudstate.edu

Brad Kuhlman

Brad Kuhlman

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Rehabilitation Psychology, University of Iowa, 1992

320-308-1685 | A262 Education Building
bkuhlman@stcloudstate.edu

Kristen Langellier

Kristen Langellier

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education and Counseling, Idaho State University
  • Kristen’s clinical focus is concentrated on college student identity development, empowerment, gender issues, first-generation student issues, and many more. She practices from an intersectional feminist and relational cultural lens. Kristen is deeply passionate about social justice and counselor education; much of her research and other scholarly/creative activities are about subjects at the center of two intersecting concepts. These concepts include classism within academia, first-generation students as professors, and weight-based oppression.

320-308-5194 | 202 C Brown Hall
kristen.langellier@stcloudstate.edu

Bill Lepkowski

Bill Lepkowski

  • Professor
  • Department Co-Chair, Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education and Supervision, University of Nevada
  • Best-practices for school counselors, play therapy, mental health issues in children and adolescents, legal and ethical issues in school counseling.

320-308-5280 | A273 Education Building
wjlepkowski@stcloudstate.edu

Odessa Luna

Odessa Luna

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, Auburn University, 2019
  • Staff training, treatment integrity, behavioral intervention

320-308-4167 | A266 Education Building
odluna@stcloudstate.edu

Daniel P. Macari

Daniel P. Macari

  • Professor
  • Department Co-Chair, Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
  • College Counseling

320-308-2160 | A269 Education Building
dpmacari@stcloudstate.edu

Kathryn Mayhew

Kathryn Mayhew

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Life Span Development Psychology, Iowa State University, 1997

320-308-3288 | A271 Education Building
kpmayhew@stcloudstate.edu

Michael E. Mayhew

Michael E. Mayhew

  • Professor
  • Ph.D. Marital & Family Therapy, Iowa State University
  • Community psychology; marriage and family therapy; reconciliation of human differences within simple, complex, and technological systems amid a rapidly changing industrial world; social and emotional learning; and school-family partnerships.

320-308-5457 | B235 Education Building
memayhew@stcloudstate.edu

Nicholas Newstrom

Nicholas Newstrom

  • Assistant Professor
  • MFT, Program Director
  • Ph.D. Family Social Science, Couple & Family Therapy Specialization from U of MN.

  • Research interests include human sexuality and sexual violence (sexual consent behaviors), and R statistics (structural equation modeling; EFA/CFA).

320-308-4046 | B233 Education Building
nicholas.newstrom@stcloudstate.edu

Rose Stark-Rose

Rose Stark-Rose

  • Professor, Licensed Psychologist
  • PhD. Urban Education, specialization in counseling psychology (APA accredited) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Areas of specialization include adults with eating disorders, body image challenges, mood disorders, and complex trauma. 

320-308-3218 | 103P Stewart Hall
rmstark@stcloudstate.edu

Tina M. Sacin

Tina M. Sacin

  • Professor
  • Clinical Mental Health Faculty
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education, University of Central Florida
  • Trauma (EMDR), Couples where one/both are survivor of trauma, Group counseling, Grief and Loss, Social Justice in Counseling, Supervision in Counselor Training, Cultural Fluency

320-308-4177 | 202D Brown Hall
tmsacin@stcloudstate.edu

Michele Traub

Michele Traub

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Psychology, University of Florida
  • Applied behavior analysis, school consultation, developmental disabilities, preventive health behavior/cancer detection.

320-308-2043 | B245 Education Building
mtraub@stcloudstate.edu

Barbara N. Vesely

Barbara N. Vesely

  • Professor
  • Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of North Dakota
  • On-line learning, lifelong learners, clinical psychology, chemical dependency, community psychology.

320-308-2160 | B244 Education Building
bnvesely@stcloudstate.edu

Matthew Michals-Voigt

Matthew Michals-Voigt

  • Fixed Term Professor
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education and Supervision, Capella University
  • I graduated with my PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Capella University. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. My professional interests include studying the effects of a Transgender specific course curriculum for counselors in training versus a broader multiculturalism course. I am also interested in studying the effects of nicotine on sodium valproate. 

308-5267 | Education Building A261
mvoigt@stcloudstate.edu

Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Psychology, University of Florida
  • Applied behavior analysis, school consultation, assessment and treatment of severe behavior disorders, assessment and treatment of offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

320-308-5467 | B247 Education Building
stephen.walker@stcloudstate.edu

Ben Witts

Ben Witts

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Behavior Analysis, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Applied behavior analysis, gambling, theoretical/conceptual/philosophical issues

320-308-2233 | B246 Education Building
bnwitts@stcloudstate.edu

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