Counseling & Testing Center
 

• Specialized Interests
• alcohol/drugs
• eating/body image
• glbtq students
• graduate students
• international students
• on-line screenings
• students of color
• students with disabilities
• test anxiety
• tobacco/smoking cessation

Our Staff

The UK Counseling & Testing Center staff consists of licensed psychologists, learning skills specialists, and advanced graduate students experienced in working with college students. The staff uses a multidisciplinary approach in individual counseling, group work, and outreach workshops. The foremost focus of the staff is success in all areas of the student's life.

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Clinical Staff

Federico "Felito" Aldarondo, Ph.D. - Associate Director and Psychologist
1998, Counseling Psychology, Indiana University

Mary Bolin-Reece, Ph.D. - Director and Psychologist, UK Gay-Straight Alliance (UKGSA) liaison, President's Commission on Diversity (PCD)
1994, Counseling Psychology, University of Kentucky

Tina Chang Bryant, Ph.D. - Senior Staff Psychologist, Outreach Coordinator
2002, Counseling Psychology, University of Georgia

Lori Daniel, Ph.D. - Staff Psychologist
2005, Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri - Columbia

Linda Hellmich, Ph.D. - Senior Staff Psychologist, Clinical Management Coordinator
1995, Counseling Psychology, University of Florida

Jamie Lynn Hopkins, Ph.D. - Staff Psychologist
2003, Clinical Psychology, University of Calgary

Nathaniel Hopkins, Ph.D. - Staff Psychologist
2003, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Susan Mathews, Ph.D. - Senior Staff Psychologist, Group Therapy Coordinator
2002, Counseling Psychology, University of Memphis

Robin Peterson, Psy.D. - Staff Psychologist
2009‚ Clinical Psychology‚ Spalding University

Di Sobel, Ph.D. - Senior Staff Psychologist, Coordinator of Training Program and Certified Mediator
1992, Counseling Psychology, State University of New York-Buffalo

Carolyn Spearman-Teamer, Ph.D. - Staff Psychologist
2008, Counseling Psychology, Tennessee State University

Monica Thiagarajan, Ph.D. - Staff Psychologist
2007, Counseling Psychology, Western Michigan University

All clinical staff are licensed to provide psychological services in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. All trainees are students in UK doctoral psychology programs and work under the supervision of licensed psychologists on the C&T staff.

Staff members serve as liaisons to a number of offices on the University of Kentucky campus including, but not limited to, the Alcohol Education Office, the Department of Athletics, the Office of International Affairs, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, OUTsource, the UK Gay-Straight Alliance, and the Violence Intervention and Prevention Center.

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Support Staff

Marylou Friesz

Bernadine McGhee

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Practicum Clinicians

Carrie Brown, M.S., Ed.S.

Nick Denton, M.S.

Leslie Gerrard, M.A.

Alison Kaiser, B.A.

Mike McClellan, M.S.

Allie Minieri, M.S.

Jen Poe, B.A.

Norah Sloan, M.S.

La Toya Smith, M.S., Ed.S.

Ebony Vinson, B.S.

Kim Waldheim, M.S

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Group Co-leaders

Carrie Brown

Michelle Cardi

Nicholas Denton

Alison Kaiser

Jen Poe

Robin Peterson

Di Sobel

Kim Waldheim

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Administrative Staff Officer

Linda Hougland