VIRGINIA TREATMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN

Clinical Psychology Internship Program

Training Faculty

Deborah Webb-Blackburn, Ph.D. in child clinical psychology, received her training from the University of Virginia and Medical College of Georgia. She holds an object relations / developmental theoretical orientation, and has particular interests in individual and play therapy, personality assessment, and clinical supervision. She coordinates the Psychology Seminar Series and co-leads the Individual Therapy and Assessment seminars.

Robert Cohen, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Syracuse University, is a Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. He is the Executive Director of Virginia Treatment center for Children (VTCC) and  the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies (CICFS). He has a background in community psychology and has been actively involved in program and policy development at the local, state, and federal levels. He provides training in community program development, prevention / early intervention, public policy, and administration.

Debra Cole, Ph.D. in family therapy from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and AAMFT-approved supervisor, is in private practice. Using structural and Bowenian concepts, she encourages interns to understand their own families of origin and the impact of their own history on their work.

James P. Culbert, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Florida is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. He specializes in neuropsychological evaluation of children and provides consultation to Child Neurology and other pediatric units at VCU Medical Center, and he teaches didactics in Neuropsychology.

Debbie Daniels-Mohring, Ph.D. from Georgia State University, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and provides specialized training in the Bowen model of family therapy.

William Fahey, Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Indiana State University is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. He coordinates the family therapy training clinic and the Pediatrics Consultation and Liaison service for psychology interns. He works from a psychodynamic / family systems orientation.

Leslie Kimball Franck, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She is the staff psychologist on the acute unit at VTCC.  She provides seminars on working with traumatized children and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She works from a cognitive behavioral perspective and provides supervision in individual, family, and group therapy.  She is currently consulting on a federally-funded research grant to develop a measure of alexithymia for children.  Her clinical interests include PTSD, dissociation, and other trauma-related sequelae.

Julie Linker, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the Associate Director of the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies, the research arm of VTCC. She approaches supervision primarily from family systems and cognitive behavioral approaches. She has clinical specialization in custody and divorce issues, as well as childhood depression and bipolar disorders.

Brian L. Meyer, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. He has worked in a variety of clinical and administrative position involving the interface between public policy and clinical psychology. He specializes in the treatment of troubled adolescents and their families. He works from an integrationist perspective that combines cultural context, family systems, interpersonal relations, psychodynamic ego psychology, and cognitive behavioral interventions. In supervision he focuses on how the therapist=s personal history and emotional responses to clients affect treatment.

Leslie "Skip" Montgomery, Ph.D.  in clinical psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi, is currently in private practice. He has considerable experience with the VTCC client population and utilizes a structural family therapy perspective. He co-leads the family clinic and coordinates the family therapy didactic series.

Roxann Roberson-Nay, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maine is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia
Commonwealth University Medical Center. Dr. Roberson-Nay specializes in the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety disorders and is the co-director of the VTCC, Child and Adolescent Anxiety Center. Her theoretical orientation is cognitive-behavioral and her broad research interests are in the delineation of biological and psychosocial mechanisms that confer risk for development of childhood anxiety
disorders as well as the development of evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent anxiety disorders.

Donald Oswald, Ph.D. in child clinical psychology from Virginia Tech, completed his internship at the Child Study Center, Yale University. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. His theoretical orientation is cognitive behavioral. Areas of specialization include child behavior therapy and developmental disabilities.

Yvonne K. Watkins, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia, is the site supervisor for the Community Track interns at Chesterfield Mental Health. She adheres to an attachment theory / developmental model in her work. She has extensive experience working with individuals and families, and has a special interest in the treatment of survivors, as well as perpetrators, of child sexual abuse. Dr. Watkins is the coordinator of the 12th Judicial District Court=s program for juvenile sex offenders. She also facilitates the internships Cultural Diversity Seminar.

Susan Williams White, Ph.D. from Florida State University in counseling and school psychology. Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical psychologist, and directs the VTCC Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinic. Her research and clinical interests are in the area of evidence-based treatments for children with autism and related conditions and the adaptation of cognitive-behavioral treatments for this population, as well as behavioral treatments for tics, anxiety, and habit disorders.

 

 

10/10/2007