Current Students

Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology

Nickecia Alder, MA, EdM (enrolled 2012)

• Hometown: Queens, NY
• Ethnicity: African American, Guyanese heritage
• Clinical Interests: outreach and preventive interventions with at-risk children and youth from urban settings, couple and family therapy, underrepresented college students
• Research Interests: racial identity development in African American youth, spiritual well-being as it relates to psychological well-being in African Americans, resilience among urban youth, factors that foster or inhibit academic success in urban youth, family dynamics and structure in relation to identity development,
• Contact Info: nalder@luc.edu.

Daniel Camacho, MS (enrolled 2012)

• Hometown: Croton-on-Hudson,NY
• Ethnicity: Cuban & Caucasian (bi-racial)
• Clinical Interests: Outreach and preventative interventions with youth in urban schools, school counseling
• Research Interests: School-based programs that impact the social, emotional, and academic well-being of urban youth
• Contact Info: dcamacho@luc.edu

Angela Clawson, MA (enrolled 2012)

• Hometown: Westlake, OH
• Clinical Interests: working with children and families, individuals in the LGBTQ community, college students, and grief counseling; practicing within an empowerment/systemic model; use of mindfulness techniques in therapy
• Research Interests: identity formation, racial socialization experiences, exploring resilience in oppression and ways to strengthen resilience in marginalized populations (particularly youth), development of critical consciousness, expression/communication of empathy in the counseling environment, and acculturation and enculturation processes.
• Contact info: aclawson@luc.edu

Manual Salgado, MSE (enrolled 2012)

• Hometown: Elk Grove Village, IL
• Ethnicity: Mexican American
• Clinical interest: Immigrants’ and Latino psychological well-being; acculturative stress with undocumented youth; College and university counseling
• Research interest: Culturally centered psychological well-being scale for Latino students; Academic persistence and achievement of Latino and African American youth; Mental health impact, access, and quality of service of undocumented clients; Acculturation and enculturation process
• Contact info: msalgado@luc.edu

Kristen Adams MEd (enrolled 2011)

• Hometown: Ridgefield, CT
• Clinical Interests: Adults, college counseling, underserved populations
• Research Interests: Social identity development, social class, issues of poverty, multicultural training and cultural competence, the therapeutic process
• Contact info: kadams2@luc.edu

Fatma Aydin, MA (enrolled 2011)

• Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
• Clinical Interests: Working with college student populations; outreach, preventative and psychoeducational interventions for underserved and marginalized groups; group therapy
• Research Interests: Subjective experiences of and issues related to social class; critical consciousness development of adolescents, young adults, and counselors in training; effectiveness of multicultural counseling training; at-risk youth and subjective well being
• Contact info: faydin@luc.edu

Michael Knoll, MA (enrolled 2011)

• Hometown: Stillwater, MN
• Clinical Interests: Adolescents and adults in correctional and hospital settings, prevention/intervention for at-risk youth, anxiety disorders
• Research Interests: Well-being in urban youth, spirituality, therapist resiliency, masculinity
• Contact info: mknoll@luc.edu

Kathleen Kordesh, MS (enrolled 2011)

• Hometown: Oak Park, IL
• Ethnicity/nationality: White
• Clinical interests: Children, adolescents, and adults
• Research interests: White racial attitudes, the role of affect in White individuals racial attitudes, White antiracism, social identities (including race, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, ability, and language), multicultural education and teaching
• Contact info: kkordesh@luc.edu

Andrea (Annie) Carr, M.Ed. (enrolled 2010)

• Hometown-Schererville, IN
• Ethnicity/nationality - Caucasian
• Clinical interests - Adolescents
  
• Research interests - Career and Vocational Psychology and School Counseling
• Contact info: acarr2@luc.edu

Chih-Ting Chang, M.Ed. (enrolled 2010)

• Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
• Clinical Interests: Working with immigrant populations, trauma survivors, and at-risk adolescents in urban settings
• Research Interests: Research methodologies, processes of enculturation and acculturation, resilience in urban youth and social-cultural contexts in clinical practice
• Contact info: cchang4@luc.edu

Gihane Jėrėmie-Brink, M.A. (enrolled 2010)

• Hometown: Waltham, MA
• Ethnicity: Haitian American
• Clinical Interests: Treatment of trauma, grief and PTSD in adolescents and adults; immigrant populations; group and family therapy; outreach and preventive interventions with at-risk youth in urban settings
• Research Interests: Racial and ethnic identity development; racial socialization of youth in the African American and Black immigrant populations; gendered racial socialization of African American women and adolescent girls; effects of oppression on the psychological and subjective well-being of marginalized populations; coping and resilience; acculturation and enculturation process
• Contact info: gbrink@luc.edu  

Jennifer Moulton, M.Ed. (enrolled 2009)

• Hometown: Temecula, CA
• Clinical Interests: Adults in college and community settings, prevention and outreach, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Reearch Interests: Biracial identity development, mind/body awareness in therapeutic practice as well as a method of prevention, and issues related to HIV/AIDS, such as psychological adjustment to major diagnoses, factors related to medical adherence, and prevention.
• Contact info: jmoulton@luc.edu

Megan Polanin, M.A. (enrolled 2009)

• Hometown: New Albany, IN
• Clinical Interests: Outreach & preventive interventions with urban children and adolescents of low-socioeconomic status.
• Research Interests:   familial and peer factors related to youth subjective well-being and academic achievement; effective prevention programming within urban public schools; resilience among urban youth; positive psychology curriculum.
• Contact info: mmull@luc.edu  

Kia-Rai M. Prewitt, M.A., L.P.C. (enrolled 2009)

• Hometown:   Richton Park, IL
• Clinical Interests:  Prevention and outreach for adolescents of color, underrepresented college students and their families.
• Research Interests:  Variables that contribute to the retention and graduation of underrepresented college students; career development and aspirations of African American children; positive identity development of African American children.
• Contact info:  kpittman@luc.edu

Toussaint D. Whetstone, M.A. (enrolled 2009)

• Hometown: Belvidere, IL 
• Clinical Interest: College student population, mentally ill adults, treatment of interracial couples and families.
• Research Interests: Racial identity development, racial socialization of biracial children, interracial family dynamics, self-concept in African American males as fostered or inhibited by family and educational systems, spiritual well-being as it relates to self-efficacy beliefs in oppressed populations.
• Contact info: twhetstone@luc.edu

Katie Doud, M.A. (enrolled 2008)

• Hometown: Lincoln, NE
• Clinical Interests: Working with at-risk adolescents, anxiety disorders and survivors of interpersonal violence and sexual assault
• Research Interests: Adolescent females’ identity development, protective factors for urban adolescent youth that aid students staying in school and intimate partner violence and sexual assault prevention
• Contact info: kdoud@luc.edu

Jason Hacker, M.A. (enrolled 2008)

• Hometown: Raleigh, NC
• Clinical Interests: College and university populations, adolescents, children, outreach, psychosocial education, and group therapy
• Research Interests: The factors that contribute to positive career outcomes especially for traditionally under-served populations. Measurement design in the areas of career development and multiculturalism. Individual and socialization factors that contribute to the development of a cultural identity.
• Contact info: jhacker1@luc.edu

Amber Hewitt, M.A. (enrolled 2008)

• Hometown: Shreveport, LA
• Clinical Interests: children and adolescents living in urban settings; prevention and outreach; family therapy
• Research interests: racial identity development; resilience among urban adolescents; the effects of violence and oppression on psychological well-being; double consciousness and the invisibility syndrome of African American males; stereotypical roles of African American males
• Contact info: ahewitt@luc.edu

Kristen Lamp, MA (enrolled 2007)

• Hometown: St. Paul, MN
• Research Interests: racial identity development, career development, well-being, and contextual influences on these processes
• Clinical interests: adults presenting in university and medical settings, trauma
• Contact info: klamp@luc.edu

Isabel Moallem (enrolled 2006)

• Hometown: Silver Spring, MD
• Clinical Interests: College students, families.
• Research Interests: Impact of school belonging on academic persistence and achievement, subjective well-being, ethnic identity development among adolescents.
• Contact Info: BMoalle@luc.edu