Meet Our Staff

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Erin Jeanette, PhD (she/her)

Director of Counseling Services

Education: Postdoctoral Candidate, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University; M.M. in Choral Conducting from Temple University; B.A. in Music and English, Vassar College; New York State Licensed Psychologist.

Experience: Student Psychological Counselor, City College of New York; Postdoctoral Fellow, Barnard College and the William Alanson White Institute; Health Psychology Intern, Columbia University Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital; Clinician, Adelphi Center for Psychological Services; Extern, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, Bellevue Hospital Center Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program.

Areas of Interest: Campus-based mental health care, psychological effects of socioeconomic stress and transition, unconscious processes in behavioral economics, psychodynamics in higher education, meaning-making in psychological life.

 

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Thachell Tanis, PhD (she/her)

Staff Psychologist / Student Psychological Counselor

Education: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Graduate Center at City College, CUNY; B.A. in Psychology from Colgate University; New York State Licensed Psychologist.

Experience: Psychologist, NYPD; Intern, Bellevue Hospital Center; Extern, Kings County Hospital, Clinical Psychology Fellow, Brooklyn College; Clinical Psychology Fellow, The Hunter College Campus Schools; Clinician, The Psychological Center at City College; Research Coordinator, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital.

Areas of Interest: The effects of childhood trauma in adulthood, intergenerational transmission of trauma; psychosocial issues related to culture, race, and ethnicity; identity development; resilience.

 

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Eden R. Katz, LCSW (they/them)

Clinical Operations Assistant

Education: M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University; B.A. in History from Union College; New York State Licensed Social Worker.

Experience: Psychotherapist, Liam Cudmore Psychotherapy; Group Facilitator, Sesh Therapy; Care Coordinator, Resilience Lab; Substance Use Counselor, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center.

Areas of Interest: Liberation Psychology; Harm Reduction, Gender and Sexuality; Minority Stress; Group Support.

 

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Andrea Hernandez-Vega

Andrea Hernandez Vega

Education: Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, City College of New York (CUNY); M.A. in Clinical Psychology from The New School for Social Research; B.A. in Psychology and Mental Health from The University of Puerto Rico Ponce Campus.

Experience: Resident Therapist, The Psychological Center at City College; Psychology Fellow, Hunter College Campus Schools; Research Therapist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences-Immigrant Health & Cancer Disparities.

Areas of Interest: Identity exploration and development; emotional regulation; mood and anxiety concerns; sociogenic effects on identity development and the transmission of strengths and trauma.

 

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Naje James

Najé James

Education: Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, City College of New York, CUNY; MPhil in Clinical Psychology, City College of New York, CUNY; BS in Psychology, Pennsylvania State University

Experience: Extern, Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Hospital; Therapist in Residence at the Psychological Center at City College; Clinical Research Coordinator, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Areas of Interest: Black mental health outcomes; psychosocial issues related to culture, race and ethnicity; identity development; access to mental health care; collaborative care networks; psychosis spectrum disorders; psycho-oncology

 

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Nicole Lashley-Simms

Nicole Lashley-Simms

Education: Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, The Graduate Center at John Jay College, CUNY; B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.

Experience: Extern, John Jay Wellness Center; Research Coordinator, Washington University School of Medicine

Areas of Interest: Effects of trauma, relationship stress, sexual abuse; racial and ethnic minorities; gender and sexuality.