Therapists
Our therapists (i.e.,
psychological trainees) are advanced doctoral students in the
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Florida State University.
The FSU Psychology Clinic is the first clinical placement for
second year doctoral students in clinical psychology at FSU. Our therapists
are in their second, third, or fourth years in the program.
Each therapist receives approximately three to four hours per
week of supervision with a psychologist. In
addition, two hours per week are spent in staff conferences
devoted to case presentations and intensive instruction regarding
diagnostic differentiation and treatment techniques. Our therapists
generally carry a caseload of four to five clients, who they
see on a weekly basis.
2007-2008
Psychological Trainees
| Mike Anestis |
Ted Bender |
Chris Blagg |
Scott Braithwaite |
| Joye Cox |
Stephanie Dunkel |
Erin Fink |
Amanda Gallagher |
| Cherie Guerrero |
Rosie Hunter |
Meghan Keough |
Erika North |
| Megan O'Leary |
David Purpura |
Christina Riccardi |
Kate Sawyer |
| Eddie Selby |
April Smith |
Reed Steele |
Shauna Wilson |
Supervisors
Students who conduct
therapy and assessment are under the direct supervision of one
or more members of the full-time and adjunct faculty of the
Department of Psychology. All supervisory faculty hold doctorates
in Clinical Psychology.
2007-2008
Supervisors
Thomas
E. Joiner, Jr., Ph.D.
Donald
R. Kerr, Jr., Ph.D.
Janet Kistner, Ph.D.
Natalie Sachs-Ericsson, Ph.D.
Brad Schmidt, Ph.D.
Jeanette Taylor, Ph.D.
Staff
Office
Manager
The Office Manager
is Debra DiRocco. Her office is located across the hall from the
waiting room on the 2nd floor of the Regional Rehabilitation
Building. Debra DiRocco has many duties and is largely responsible
for keeping the clinic running and managing the office assistants.
She is responsible for organizing and overseeing the day to
day operation of the clinic office and providing the public
with general information about clinic services. The office manager
also is responsible for current and former clients' accounts
(including overseeing processing of charge forms, posting of
charges and payments to client ledgers, and billings for past
due accounts), submitting insurance claims, and ordering equipment
and test materials. If you need to speak to Debra DiRocco, she
can be reached at the main FSU Psychology Clinic number: (850)
644-3006.
Office
Assistants
The office assistants
are in the clinic to help you. They typically answer phone,
greet you when you arrive, give you questionnaires to complete
(as applicable), let your therapist know you are here to see
him/her, give you a parking pass, take your payment, and issue
you a receipt.
2007-2008
Office Assistants
Jennifer Martinez
Elizabeth Riccardi
MaryBeth Underwood
Psychologist-in-Residence
Donald R. Kerr, Jr.,
Ph.D., (otherwise known as “Sandy”) is the psychologist-in-residence
at the FSU Psychology Clinic. He supervises graduate students,
acts as a licensed consultant to graduate students on a daily
basis, and also carries his own caseload of clients.
Dr. Kerr, who has a general clinical practice, is an experienced clinical psychologist. He sees clients from FSU as well as from the Tallahassee area and south Georgia. Dr. Kerr is a provider for a number of insurance companies including Blue Cross and Blue Shield and can be reached at the clinic phone number (644-3006).
Clinic
Director
Thomas E. Joiner, Jr., Ph.D., is the Director of the FSU Psychology Clinic. He went to college at Princeton and received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1993 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the The Bright-Burton Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
Dr. Joiner’s
work is on the psychology and neurobiology of depression, suicidal
behavior, anxiety, and eating disorders. Author of over 200
peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Joiner was Associate Editor
of the journal Behavior Therapy, and sits on 11 editorial boards,
including those of the Journal of Consulting & Clinical
Psychology, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and Clinical
Psychology: Science & Practice.
Dr. Joiner received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003. Dr. Joiner was elected
Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and received
the Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for
Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Shakow Award for
Early Career Achievement from the Division of Clinical Psychology
of the American Psychological Association, the Shneidman Award
for excellence in suicide research from the American Association
of Suicidology, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early
Career Contributions from the American Psychological Association,
as well as research grants from the National Institute of Mental
Health and various foundations.
Dr. Joiner is author
of several books, including Treating Suicidal Behavior, published
by Guilford Press in 2000, Self-Determination Theory in the
Clinic, published by Yale University Press in 2003, and Simple Treatments for Complex Problems, published by Erlbaum in 2004. This latter book was written in collaboration with all therapists of the FSU Psychology Clinic.
Assistant
Director of the Clinic
Each academic year
the director appoints an advanced therapist to the position
of assistant director. The assistant director is responsible
for working with the clinic director to implement and monitor
clinic procedures, and is available to therapists who have clinical
or procedural questions, who wish to have their sessions observed,
or who wish to observe the assistant director’s sessions.
The assistant director also conducts application interviews
with prospective clients and makes regular contact with clients
who have been placed on a waiting list for services. The assistant
director can be contacted through the main clinic number: (850)
644-3006.
2007-2008
Assistant Director
Kelly Schmeelk, M.S.
