About Us

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About Student Wellbeing

 

Our Mission

Our comprehensive wellbeing services strive to empower each and every student to gain knowledge, access resources and make healthy choices to pursue optimal health and quality of life.

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Student Wellbeing units are interested in your feedback to help us improve our services. The more information you can provide, the more we are able to address concerns and issues. This feedback form will be read about once weekly.

If you have immediate concerns about your experience, please call 302-831-2226.

About Our Units

Center for Counseling and Student Development (CCSD)

CCSD is a nationally accredited counseling center that serves as the mental health hub of the university, providing triage services, promoting navigation of both on- and off-campus resources, delivering a variety of mental health services, conducting outreach trainings, and offering consultation to parents, faculty and staff.

CCSD is staffed by an interdisciplinary mental health team and hosts a robust nationally accredited training program for future mental health professionals. Staff are specialists in mental health problems and developmental issues particular to emerging adulthood.

CCSD is accredited by the International Associate of Counseling Services, Inc.

Phone: 302-831-2141

Fax: 302-831-2148

Student Health
Services (SHS)

 

SHS is the primary undergraduate and graduate student healthcare unit on the UD campus. With a focus on primary care, SHS provides in-person and telehealth services, averaging 46,000 patient visits per academic year.

Partnering with students and staff, SHS enhances the development of personal and social responsibility and fosters safe, healthy, inclusive and supportive communities at UD.

SHS engages with all aspects of the University community to encourage student success, cultivate knowledge and provide Blue Hens with the services, care and skills to make healthy choices.

Phone: 302-831-2226

Fax: 302-831-6407

Email: studenthealth@udel.edu

Student Wellness and Health Promotion (SWHP)

SWHP provides services to support students’ behavioral and emotional wellness, and helps students evaluate options for maintaining healthy lifestyles through prevention, intervention and education.

To help students develop their wellness foundation through education and practice, we provide guidance through large-scale events, small group workshops, in-class presentations, reading materials and online activities. Robust content equips Blue Hens for individual and community wellness.

SWHP builds and maintains diverse partnerships with on- and off-campus resources, while working to engage all members of our UD community to make this campus a healthier, more well place to be.

Staff Directory

Wellbeing Operations

Helen Ann Lawless


Director of Strategic Wellbeing & Training
 

Suzi Halpin


Building and Facilities Manager
 

Kristen Hobson


Administrative Assistant
 

Center for Counseling and Student Development

Cynthia Diefenbeck, PsyD, APRN

Director, Center for Counseling and Student Development
 

Areas of Interest
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, adjustment concerns, trauma, mind-body connection

Katie Bekkeli, PsyD, LP, ABPP

Associate Director of Training
 

Stacey Boyer, PsyD

Associate Director of Clinical Services
 

Areas of Interest
Trauma, dissociation/dissociative disorders, relationships, identity and diversity concerns, wellbeing in helping professions, psychological assessment, consultation, training, supervision

Gregory Cooper, PMHNP, APRN

Associate Director of Psychiatry and Addiction Services
 

Areas of Interest
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, trauma, pharmacogenomics, mind-body-spirit connection

Christine Jehu, PhD

Associate Director of Embedded Services, Senior Sport Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Sport psychology, working with student athletes, identity development, LGBTQ+, training future psychologists

Amanda Wroten

Administrative Specialist
 

Kyle Hitchens, LCSW

Assistant Director of Clinical Outcomes
 

Areas of Interest
Trauma, navigation of change, identity development, meaning-making, belonging

Brittany Rivero, PsyD

Assistant Director of Clinical Operations
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety disorders, mood disorders, LGBTQIA+ concerns, body image concerns and eating disorders, multicultural issues, identity development, adjustment, concerns related to religion/religious identity

Cindy Scheffler, LCSW

Assistant Director of Addiction Services
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety concerns. mood concerns, body image and eating disorders, trauma, loss and grief, adjustment

Brad Wolgast, PhD, CBSM, DBSM

Assistant Director of Training
 

Areas of Interest
Sleep disorders and their behavioral treatments

Stacey Boyer, PsyD

Associate Director of Clinical Services
 

Areas of Interest
Trauma, dissociation/dissociative disorders, relationships, identity and diversity concerns, wellbeing in helping professions, psychological assessment, consultation, training, supervision

Kyle Hitchens, LCSW

Assistant Director of Clinical Outcomes
 

Areas of Interest
Trauma, navigation of change, identity development, meaning-making, belonging

Brittany Rivero, PsyD

Assistant Director of Clinical Operations
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety disorders, mood disorders, LGBTQIA+ concerns, body image concerns and eating disorders, multicultural issues, identity development, adjustment, concerns related to religion/religious identity

Michele Juarez-Huffaker, PhD

Senior Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety, depression, life transitions, identity issues (LGBTQQIA), eating disorders, trauma, relationship issues, multicultural and social justice concerns, training and supervision, international and graduate students

Jan Pregel

Psychologist II
 

Lauren Bauer, LCSW

Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
Autism, ADHD, human development, attachment, anxiety. LGBTQIA+, social justice, training and supervision

Falon Desselle, LCSW

Mental Health Clinician
 

Aroya Griffin

Mental Health Clinician
 

Ashley Harriz, LPCMH, NCC

Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders

Ashley Kraemer, MS, LPCMH, NCC

Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders

Joyce Persing, LCSW

Mental Health Clinician
 

Gregory Cooper, PMHNP, APRN

Associate Director of Psychiatry and Addiction Services
 

Areas of Interest
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, trauma, pharmacogenomics, mind-body-spirit connection

Cynthia Diefenbeck, PsyD, APRN

Director, Center for Counseling and Student Development
 

Areas of Interest
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, adjustment concerns, trauma, mind-body connection

Richard Kingsley, MD

Psychiatrist
 

Areas of Interest
ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders

Cindy Scheffler, LCSW

Assistant Director of Addiction Services
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety concerns. mood concerns, body image and eating disorders, trauma, loss and grief, adjustment

Corrie Schmitt, MAJ, LMSW

Care Coordinator
 

Christine Jehu, PhD

Associate Director of Embedded Services, Senior Sport Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Sport psychology, working with student athletes, identity development, LGBTQ+, training future psychologists

Clare Devine, PsyD

Sport Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Student-athlete mental health, sport psychology. social justice, identity development, wellness

Rebecca Brandt, LCSW

Mental Health Care Coordinator, Dover/Georgetown AAP
 

Areas of Interest
Young adults and adolescents, anxiety, depression, domestic violence, trauma, treatment using psychedelic therapies

Danielle Lopez, LCSW

Mental Health Care Coordinator, Wilmington AAP
 

Areas of Interest
Working with first-generation/non-traditional college students, familial/relational concerns, anxiety, depression

Katie Bekkeli, PsyD, LP, ABPP

Associate Director of Training
 

Brad Wolgast, PhD, CBSM, DBSM

Assistant Director of Training
 

Areas of Interest
Sleep disorders and their behavioral treatments

Janessa Brown, M.S.

Doctoral Intern
 

Sherri Brunner, M.A.

Doctoral Intern
 

Ron Chau, M.A.

Doctoral Intern
 

Allison Coyne, M.A.

Doctoral Intern
 

DJ Katella, B.S.

Extern
 

Amanda Wroten

Administrative Specialist
 

Annette Goodwin

Administrative Assistant III
 

Jessica Greenleaf

Administrative Assistant III
 

Pippa Duggan

Misc. Wage Administrative Assistant
 

Student Health Services

Kelly Frick, MD, FAAFP


Medical Director
 

Andrew Reisman, MD, FAMSSM, FAAFP, CAQSM


Medical Director, Athletic Medicine, Student Health Services and Chief Medical Officer, Athletics
 

Cherie Ward, MSN, RN, CEN


Director of Nursing, Senior Associate Director of Medical Operations
 

Geoffrey Gustavsen, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM, FAAMA


Assistant Medical Director, Recreation Services
 

Christopher Leounes, BSN, RN


Assistant Director, Nursing
 

Ebony Wood


Billing Manager
 

Andrea Trungold


Administrative Specialist
 

Carla Basadre, MD, CAQSM


Sports Medicine
 

Allison Buonocore, MD


Primary Care
 

Mary Ann Connor, DO


Primary Care
 

Kelly Frick, MD, FAAFP


Medical Director
 

Geoffrey Gustavsen, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM, FAAMA


Assistant Medical Director, Recreation Services
 

Chantel Imran, MD, FACOG


Second Floor Medical Services / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 

Charlene Jones, MD, MPH, CAQSM


Sports Medicine
 

Audrey Pessu-Uwah, MD


Primary Care
 

Andrew Reisman, MD, FAMSSM, FAAFP, CAQSM


Medical Director, Athletic Medicine, Student Health Services and Chief Medical Officer, Athletics
 

Nancy Moore, APRN, CNP


Primary Care / Travel Health / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 

Monika Patel, MSN, APRN, FNP-C


Primary Care / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 

Janet Reid, MSN, ANP-BC


Second Floor Medical Services / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 

Ludora Riegel, MSN, WHNP-BC


Second Floor Medical Services / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 

Maria Taplin, MS, RDN, LDN, ACE-GFI


Dietician
 

Amy Wilcoxon, MA, RD, LDN, CDCES


Dietician, Nutrition Coordinator
 

Mary Barfell, BSN, RN


Dispensary Nursing Coordinator
 

Lori Duhamell, BSN, RN


Sports Medicine Nursing Coordinator
 

Christopher Leounes, BSN, RN


Assistant Director, Nursing
 

Kathryn Morrison, MSN, RN


Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Nursing Coordinator
 

Jodie Scott, BSN, RN


Immunization and Allergy Nursing Coordinator
 

Theresa Matarese, BS, MLS(ASCP)SBB


Laboratory Manager
 

Kim Feldmann, AS, RT(R)(M)


Radiology Coordinator
 

Student Wellness and Health Promotion

Joy Allison


Director, Health Promotion and Prevention Education
 

Kathy Parlamenti


Administrative Assistant II
 

Dorothy Broiles


Administrative Support, AlcoholEdu
 

Jessica Estok


Assistant Director, Substance Use Recovery
 

Amy Richardson


Assistant Director, Substance Use Intervention
 

Jennie Maslow


Program Coordinator, BASICS
 

Joanne Sampson


Program Coordinator, Violence Prevention
 

Zainab Shah


Assistant Director, Victim Advocacy
 

Sophia Angeletakis


Graduate Assistant
 

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