Behavioral Health and Counseling

Faculty and Staff

Staff

Annie Runke

Annie Runke

  • Office Manager

Faculty

Thea Baker

Thea Baker

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

Eunju Choi

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. Industrial and Organizational Behavior Management, Western Michigan University

  • Research interests: Applied behavior analysis, behavior-based instructional design, performance management 
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.
Bill Lepkowski

Bill Lepkowski

  • Professor
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education and Supervision, University of Nevada

  • Research interests: Best-practices for school counselors, play therapy, mental health issues in children and adolescents, legal and ethical issues in school counseling
Odessa Luna

Odessa Luna

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, Auburn University, 2019

  • Staff training, treatment integrity, behavioral intervention
Kathryn Mayhew

Kathryn Mayhew

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

Michael E. Mayhew

  • Professor
  • Ph.D. Marital & Family Therapy, Iowa State University

  • Research interests: 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.
Rose Stark-Rose

Rose Stark-Rose

  • Professor, Licensed Psychologist
  • PhD. Urban Education, specialization in counseling psychology (APA accredited) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  • Research interests: Areas of specialization include adults with eating disorders, body image challenges, mood disorders, and complex trauma
Tina M. Sacin

Tina M. Sacin

  • Professor
  • Clinical Mental Health Faculty
  • Ph.D. Counselor Education, University of Central Florida

  • Research interests: 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
Michele Traub

Michele Traub

  • Department Chair
  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Psychology, University of Florida

  • Research interests: Applied behavior analysis, school consultation, developmental disabilities, preventive health behavior/cancer detection

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Barbara N. Vesely

Barbara N. Vesely

  • Professor
  • Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of North Dakota

  • Research interests: Online learning, lifelong learners, clinical psychology, chemical dependency, community psychology
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. 
Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker

  • Associate Professor
  • Program Director, Applied Behavioral Analysis
  • Ph.D. Psychology, University of Florida

  • Research interests: Applied behavior analysis, school consultation, assessment and treatment of severe behavior disorders, assessment and treatment of offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Ben Witts

Ben Witts

  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. Behavior Analysis, University of Nevada, Reno

  • Research interests: Applied behavior analysis, gambling, theoretical/conceptual/philosophical issues