Meet Our Faculty

Anna Elliott

Anna Elliott, PhD

Faculty Profile

Dr. Anna Elliott (she/hers) specializes in working with families, adolescents, and trauma recovery through a relational-cultural psychodynamic approach. Her teaching and supervision practices are grounded in a social constructivist philosophy involving collaboration and empowerment. Her research and scholarship focus on enhancing counselor development and improving mental health access, particularly in rural communities.

Robin Hausheer

Robin Hausheer, EdD

Faculty Profile

Dr. Hausheer’s research interests include substance misuse prevention and intervention with a focus on underage drinking, engaging parents as prevention allies, and developing youth substance use prevention and intervention programming for parents. Further research includes bystander bullying intervention programming with K-12 students and implicit bias training for counselors and educators.

Aishwarya Joshi

Aishwarya Joshi, PhD

Faculty Profile

Dr. Aishwarya Joshi's (she/hers) primary areas of clinical practice, research, and scholarly work focus on the globalization of the field of counseling and counselor education. Her work includes trauma-informed counseling practices and interdisciplinary integration of mental health services in public policies in the U.S. and abroad.

Jane Okech

Jane Okech, PhD

Faculty Profile

Dr. Jane Okech’s (she/hers) scholarship primarily focuses on the advancement of proficiencies in the practice of group psychotherapy and clinical supervision with diverse populations. She has expertise in clinical supervision, ethics, group therapy and co-leadership, multiculturalism, and social justice and equity. Dr. Okech also serves as the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at University of Vermont.

Lance Smith

Lance Smith, PhD

Faculty Profile

Dr. Lance Smith (he/him) is the proud co-founder of the multidisciplinary Project CORE: Community Based Participatory Research and Restorative Practices research team at the University of Vermont. Dr. Smith focuses on equity centered, Critically Conscious, Intersectional and Liberatory approaches to counseling, teaching, and supervision.

Nancy Thacker Darrow

Nancy Thacker Darrow, PhD – Program Coordinator

Faculty Profile

Dr. Nancy Thacker Darrow (she/hers) aims the be critical of systemic inequities that shape development and wellbeing throughout her work. Her research explores this aim in three topic areas: grief theory and counseling, LGBTQ+ persons’ mental health and development, and culturally-informed practices in counselor education and higher education.

Julie Welkowitz

Julie Welkowitz, PhD

Faculty Profile

Dr. Julie Welkowitz (she/hers) has a strong interest in systems change. Her involvement in numerous applied projects support the capacity of school systems to better meet the mental health needs of students and to enhance their support of students from economically or otherwise disadvantaged backgrounds.

 

Counseling Program Adjunct Faculty - Alphabetical Listing
NameContact
Anne Geroski, Ed.DAnne.Geroski@uvm.edu
Amy Dingman-Parini, MA, PMH-C, PLLCNot available yet
Michelle Fane, MS, LCMHCMichelle.Fane-Cushing@uvm.edu
Megan Johnson Dunston, MS, LCMHCmmjohnso@uvm.edu
Zachary Key, MA, LCMHCZachary.Key@uvm.edu
Dylan McNamara, Ph.DDylan.McNamara@uvm.edu
Mark Nash, MS, LCMHCMark.Nash@uvm.edu
Olivia Sanders, MS, LCMHC, AAPOlivia.Sanders@uvm.edu

Counseling Program Staff
NameContact
Aaron Sonam Friedensohncslgprog@uvm.edu