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Cook Counseling Center Staff |
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Counselors/Psychologists Charlotte Amenkhienan, Ph.D. || Charles B. Anderson, Ph.D. || Gary T. Bennett, Ph.D. || Cathye G. Betzel, Psy.D. || DaHyun Chun, Ph.D. || Trent Davis, Ph.D. || Anna Epperson, M.A., NCC || Christopher Flynn, Ph.D. (Director) || Rita Klein, Ph.D. || Ryoichi Noguchi, Ph.D. || Robert Ritchie, M.S. (Case Manager) || Charity Rolfes, Ph.D. || Marina Shafran, Ph.D. || Ellie T. Sturgis, Ph.D. || Yanping Wang, Ph.D. || Ryan Weatherford, Ph.D. || Amber Wenderlich, M.A. || Beth Wilson, Ph.D.
Psychiatry Staff
Vicki Arbuckle, PMHNP-BC || Joseph Frieben,
MD || Cynthia Gibbons, FNP-BC || James Reinhard, MD ||
Support Staff Cheryl Curran || Diann Diaz || Wanda Hale || Sandy Ward
Pre-doctoral
Psychology Interns
Angie Dahl, M.S.
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M.Ed.
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Charlotte Amenkhienan,
Ph.D.
(Virginia Tech) Charlotte Amenkhienan is the Multicultural and programs evaluation Coordinator at the center. In addition, she coordinates Outreach Requests, Peer Assistance for Learning (PAL), and Learning Assistance programs. Her professional areas of interest include cross-cultural counseling issues, stress management, adjustment issues, and depression. Other areas of special interest include the provision of outreach services to individuals and groups who would otherwise not utilize traditional mental health services, and working with international students. Her theoretical orientation is cognitive-behavioral.
Charles B.
Anderson, Ph.D. Charles Anderson is a
Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Associate
Director of the
Gary T.
Bennett, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky) Gary’s area of interest including substance abuse, trauma, and sport psychology. Currently, he is working fulltime in the Virginia Tech Athletics Department where he meets with both individual student-athletes and with varsity teams. Gary’s theoretical style is influenced by cognitive-behavioral, feminist, acceptance and mindfulness, and brief therapy models. Gary is a member of APA (Division 47—Exercise and Sport Psychology) and of The Association of Applied Sport Psychology. He is a Certified Consultant - Association for Applied Sport Psychology
Cathye Griffin Betzel, Psy.D.
Cathye's professional interests include psychological assessment and women's issues, with a special interest in couples therapy. Her theoretical orientation is primarily systemic with influences from cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and constructivist theories. Cathye coordinates the APA accredited pre-doctoral internship in psychology, as well as post-doctoral and practicum training programs at the CCC. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 12 - Clinical Psychology and 17- Counseling Psychology), the Virginia Psychological Association, the Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists, and the Southeastern Psychological Association. She is listed as a Health Service Provider in the National Register of Health Services in Psychology.
DaHyun Chun, Ph.D. (Ohio University) DaHyun’s clinical interests include working with affect, depression, anxiety, body image and eating disorders, cross-cultural issues, and spirituality, along with providing outreach and consultation to underserved populations. Her passion lies in group therapy, psychotherapy, and working with international students and ethnic minorities. Her style is influenced by cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, object relations, gestalt, and humanistic theories. She is a member of the American Psychological Association along with the Asian American Psychological Association. Other areas of interest include drinking good coffee, reading, and racquetball. 
Trent Davis, Ph.D.
(Virginia Tech) Trent’s professional interests include depression, anxiety, trauma, substance abuse, and serious mental illness. He enjoys working with individuals, groups, and couples in therapy. Trent also focuses on stress management and wellness in his clinical work. His therapeutic influences are Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Systemic, and Interpersonal theories. Some personal interests include bicycling, fly fishing, and playing drums.
Anna C. Epperson, MA (Virginia
Tech)
Anna Epperson is a part-time staff counselor at Virginia Tech
first coming to the counseling center in
2001. She is a doctoral candidate in
Virginia Tech’s Counselor Education and
Supervision program. One of her professional
interest is using the integrative therapy,
Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR). She is interested in working with students with depression,
anxiety issues, and any issue that impacts
students’ adjustment to and success in
college. She is interested in group therapy
and has led social anxiety groups as well as
mindfulness groups. Her theoretical
orientation is integrative with an emphasis
on cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR.
Christopher Flynn,
Ph.D. (University of Miami) Christopher Flynn has been Director of the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center at Virginia Tech since fall of 2006; the Cook Counseling Center is IACS-accredited and offers an APA-approved internship in professional psychology. Dr. Flynn previously served as Director of the Counseling & Career Services at Loyola University New Orleans (1989-2006) and as a staff psychologist at the University Counseling Services of Boston College (1984-1989). He has taught a wide range of courses over the past thirty years including personality, abnormal psychology, and human sexuality. Dr. Flynn received his Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology) in 1983 from the University of Miami (FL). He is an active member of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), and has served on the AUCCCD Board of Directors. His clinical interests include individual and couples therapy, sexual functioning, disparities in access to mental health, and crisis response.
Rita Klein, Ph.D. (Fordham
University) Rita's professional interests include test anxiety, anxiety disorders, relationship difficulties and communication skills. Her treatment orientation is cognitive-behavioral with techniques borrowed from other orientations. Group interests include graduate student therapy groups, support groups and skill building groups. Couples and family interventions are also an interest.
Robert S. Ritchey, M.S. (Radford University) Rob's professional interests include acute psychopathology, suicide and criminogenic processes. As the CCC Case Manager, Rob works as a liaison with various mental health providers and agencies in the community in order to assist with the provision of comprehensive mental health services for students. Rob also works as a student advocate by assisting students with significant mental health needs in accessing available campus resources. During non-working hours he enjoys spending time with his family (plus fishing with the guys.)
Charity Rolfes, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Marina
Shafran, Ph.D. (Western Michigan University) Marina’s major interests include sexual abuse, genocide, combat trauma, secondary trauma, and grief and loss. She enjoys working with students from underrepresented groups and international students. Her therapeutic influences are Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioral, and Existential theories. Some personal interests include Holocaust studies and traveling.
Ellie T. Sturgis, Ph.D.
(University of Georgia)
Ellie’s professional interests include anxiety, mood, and eating, and substance abuse disorders as well as attentional and learning difficulties which impede a student’s ability to demonstrate knowledge. She is also interested in relationship issues, particularly those of LGBT students. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on anxiety, substance abuse, eating, and physiological disorders. Her therapy is influenced by cognitive-behavioral, biological, interpersonal perspectives and she uses a collaborative style when working with clients. In addition to her background as a therapist, Ellie spent a number of years on the faculties of medical schools and universities and has been an academic dean, thus she is able to help students learn to negotiate the challenges of university life.
Yanping
Wang, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech)
Yanping’s professional interests include
mood and anxiety disorders, relationship
difficulties, trauma, cross-cultural and
diversity issues, spirituality, and
borderline personality disorder. She enjoys
working with students from diverse
backgrounds through individual, couples, and
group therapy as well as outreach and
consultation services. Her therapeutic
approach is integrative and is influenced by
cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical
behavior therapy, interpersonal,
psychodynamic and object relations theories.
She is a member of the American
Psychological Association and Association
for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
She is listed as a Health Service Provider
in the National Register of Health Services
in Psychology.
Some personal interests include
gardening, hiking,
books/movies, traveling, and spending time
with family and friends.
Ryan
Weatherford, Ph.D. (Lehigh
University) Ryan’s clinical interests include relationship conflicts, depression, substance abuse, cultural identity development, and stress. His specialty areas are substance abuse treatment, group psychotherapy, supervision, and research. Ryan works from an interpersonal/humanistic approach integrating cognitive behavioral and motivational strategies. Personal interests include hiking, books/movies, cooking, and following his favorite sports teams.
Beth Wilson, Ph.D. (Indiana University) Beth is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and has worked with college students at a number of different counseling centers. She enjoys working with students from diverse backgrounds through individual, couples and group therapy. Beth's therapy style is influenced primarily by Narrative and Interpersonal Therapy. Narrative therapy is a respectful and collaborative approach to counseling and community work. It focuses on the stories of people's lives and is based on the idea that problems are manufactured in social, cultural and political contexts. Each person produces the meaning of their life from the stories that are available in these contexts. A wider meaning of narrative therapy relates significantly to a relatively recent way of thinking about the nature of human life and knowledge which has come to be known as "postmodernism" which believes there is no one objective "truth" and that there are many multiple possible interpretations of any event. Thus within a narrative approach, our lives are seen as multi-storied vs. single-storied. Beth also believes that the relationship between the client and the therapist is an essential component to client change. She assumes that we are relational by nature and thus many problems are interpersonal in nature; familial experience is the central source of learning about ourselves and others; and the therapist-client relationship can help resolve problems. Personal activities include physical activities, spending time with family, watching movies, and cooking.
Angie Dahl, M.S. (Utah State University) I am a pre-doctoral
intern completing my PhD from
Daniel
Isenberg, M.E.d. (Lehigh
University) Dan is finishing his Ph.D.
in counseling psychology from
Zetta Nicely, M.A. (Radford
University) Zetta is a student in the Counseling Psychology Psy. D. program at Radford University. Her clinical interests include women’s issues, gender and identity development, trauma and post-traumatic growth, resiliency, first-generation college students, and adolescents. Zetta’s therapeutic style is strongly influenced by interpersonal, feminist, and existential themes. Her undergraduate experience at Berea College fueled her passion for Appalachian issues, particularly social and environmental justice, cultural dignity and traditional wisdom. Zetta cooks, gardens, explores nature, and invents crafty projects every chance she gets. She is slowly learning to sew and plans to begin learning to play banjo while on internship.
updated 09.23.2011 |
Cook Counseling Center's Online Screening Module
Cook Counseling Center and Screening for Mental Health, Inc. offer free and anonymous online screening for depression, alcohol use, eating disorders, and anxiety. The online screenings are informational, not diagnostic, and treatment recommendations are not provided. Online screening is made available so that Virginia Tech students may find out whether consultation with a Cook Counseling Center counselor may be helpful.