Erin Jeanette

Erin Jeanette, head of Counseling Services, joined CUNY SPS in August 2018.  She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with specialties in campus-based mental health care and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapies.  She has previously worked in the student counseling centers at CUNY City College and at Barnard College, as well as at various New York City hospitals and mental health clinics including Columbia University Medical Center – NY Presbyterian Hospital, the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Bellevue Hospital.  In addition to her role at CUNY SPS, she maintains a private practice, where she sees patients and supervises psychologists-in-training.

Erin has a broad commitment to higher education equity and access.  She is interested in the unconscious processes that shape institutional dynamics in higher education, and that influence students’ experience of higher education institutions.  Her doctoral dissertation research investigated the unconscious processes that influence an individual’s choice to take out higher education loans.

Erin holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University, a master of music in choral conducting from Temple University, and bachelor of arts degrees in music and English from Vassar College.