Caitlin R. Merrill and Adriana Sánchez of the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the Gevirtz School were given 2019-20 Susan A. Neufeldt Awards for Excellence in Clinical Supervision for their service at the Hosford Counseling and Psychological Services Clinic at UC Santa Barbara. The award is named in honor of a previous director of the Hosford Clinic.
Merrill is a doctoral student with an emphasis in counseling psychology working with Dr. Tania Israel. She is a clinic co-coordinator and student supervisor at the Hosford Clinic. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where she majored in Psychology and minored in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She received a master’s in counseling psychology from UCSB. Her research focuses on the mental health of LGBTQ+ community members, including technological psychological interventions. She developed an online coping skills training, which, for her dissertation, she is tailoring to the issues that transgender people face.
Sánchez is a Counseling Psychology doctoral student working with Dr. Melissa L. Morgan-Consoli. She received both her bachelor’s in Psychology with a minor in Applied Psychology and her master’s in Counseling Psychology from UCSB. Her research interests include educational attainment and persistence, resilience, and thriving in underrepresented and under-served populations, with an emphasis in Latinx populations.
The Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic is a university-based community clinic that is designed to provide developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive, low-cost individual, couple, family, and group psychological treatment and testing/assessment services to people living within the central coast community. The Hosford Clinic serves as a training site for students in CCSP and as a clinical-research facility for the faculty and students of the CCSP Department. It also strives to provide educational, consultation, and training services to professional and paraprofessional clinicians and educators in the tri-counties.