Faculty
Faculty
Meet the faculty and supervisors for the Family Therapy Training program.
MFT Program Faculty and Instructors
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: Feminist Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Queer Couples, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare & Medical Family Therapy, Reproductive Justice, Sexual Trauma, Trauma-Informed Care.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: Medical Family Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Healthcare, Narrative- Informed Medical Family Therapy, Social and Political Advocacy in Family Therapy, Emergency Department Utilization, Medical Residency Education.
Director, MS MFT Program
Clinical Director, Highland Family Medicine Behavioral Health
Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Family Medicine
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: Medical Family Therapy, Collaboration between primary care and mental health, and Perinatal mental health.
Clinical Director, Strong Family Therapy Services
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Pediatrics
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: Pediatric Family Psychology, Medical Family Therapy, Chronic Illness, Developmental and Behavioral Needs, Parenting, and Advocacy, and Research Interests focused on Collaboration and Integrated Care.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
AAMFT-Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: Families and Health, particularly related to genetic concerns and infertility/fertility treatments; grief and loss; and ethics and professional Practice.
Michelle Swanger-Gagne, PhD, NCSP
Director, Advanced-Degree Training Program
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics
Major Interests: Family engagement in children’s education and health Care, family-school-community partnerships, pediatric collaborative and integrative care; specific clinical interests include pediatric pain, chronic pediatric health conditions, medical family therapy, school consultation, children/ youth with neurodivergence behavioral concerns, and school challenges
Senior Instructor; Departments of Psychiatry & Pediatrics
AAMFT Supervisor in Training
Major Interests: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Maternal Mental Health, Infant Sleep Research, SUID Research. Integrated Behavioral Health, Family Therapy, Experiential Family Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy.
Additional Institute for the Family Faculty
Director, Institute for the Family
Associate Professor, Depts of Psychiatry, Medicine, & Surgery
Major Interests: Geriatric Family Psychology, Medical Family Therapy, Caregiving, Adjustment to Illness, Physician-Patient Communication, Coaching and Leadership Development for Physicians and other health professionals.
Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine
Senior Advisor, Institute for the Family
Major Interests: Medical Family Therapy, Integrated Primary and Specialty Care, Healthcare Teams and Collaboration, Inter-Professional Education, Physician- Patient Communication, and Communication Coaching for Physicians and other Health Professionals.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine
Associate Chair of Education Department
Major Interests: Medical Family Therapy, Models of collaborative and integrative healthcare, Couple and family therapy training education assessment, effects of illness and health on family relationships
MS MFT Supervisors
Shanice Aluko, MS, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Supervisor in Training
Major Interests: couple/marital and family therapy, faith/spirituality and psychotherapy, medical family therapy, Black/African American family issues and parenting, children/youth with behavioral concerns, and collaboration between primary care, mental health, and faith-based organizations.
Alex Brumfield, MS, LMFT-D
Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Supervisor in Training
Major Interests: Narrative therapy, integrated behavioral healthcare, neurodiversity, structural and intergenerational inequity, exposure response prevention and inference-based treatments for anxiety/OCD, collaboration with family systems throughout treatment.
Tonya Girard, MS, LMFT
Senior Marriage and Family Therapist
AMFT Approved Supervisor
Course Instructor, MS MFT Program
Major Interests: medical family therapy, collaborative/integrated health practice, trauma-informed care and treatment, mind-body integration, women’s and LGBTQIA+ health.
BriAnna Hovey, MS, LMFT-D
Senior Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Supervisor in Training
Major Interests: family relationships and couples therapy, parenting and parent-child relationships.
Rachael Zoller, MS, LMFT
Associate Director of Mental Health and Gender Wellness
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major interests: Integrated mental health care in OB/GYN, couple/relational/family therapy, adolescent mental health, clinical supervision, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Health at Every Size (HAES), body image and body diversity.
*Additional clinical supervisors vary each year at community sites