Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling

When I began teaching at UNC, I brought more than 26 years of experience as a rehabilitation counselor, administrator, advocate, and educator. My work in psychiatric rehabilitation has allowed me to explore an unusually wide range of research and clinical practice topics within mental health care, vocational rehabilitation, and education, which I use in my teaching and clinical training with students.
Since 2015, I have been involved with establishing Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP) opportunities for our students and faculty at UNC. The Department of Health Sciences has dedicated time and resources to build and sustain our IPEP activities within the department as well as being a founding member of the UNC CH Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice. As the Director of IPEP for our department, I work with the Office of IPEP to build partnerships across campus that offer interdisciplinary training to our CRMH students as well as all students in the department.