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UCC, a unit of UHS, serves students University-wide and provides comprehensive assessments and individualized treatment plans to meet an individual\u2019s mental health and wellness needs. These plans may include recommendations for group therapy, workshops, brief therapy, referrals to a community provider for specialized treatment or longer term therapy services, Therapist Assisted On-line (TAO), case management services, psychiatry or other campus services.<\/p>\n
Cahill has been the UCC director of training since 2007, with responsibilities for administering multidisciplinary programs, including the training of psychology doctoral interns, postdoctoral fellows, psychology graduate students, social work interns and psychiatry residents. In 2005 and 2012, she successfully secured reaccreditation of the psychology doctoral internship program by the American Psychological Association, and is currently engaged in the 2019 reaccreditation process.<\/p>\n
A licensed psychologist in the State of New York, she received her bachelor’s degree in psychology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1994 and worked first as a pre-professional trainee with the Devereux Foundation near Philadelphia, and then as a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She received her Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology from the University of South Carolina in 2002, after completing her pre-doctoral internship through the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship the University\u2019s Counseling Center, she joined the faculty as staff psychologist.<\/p>\n
She enjoys working with a wide variety of students, and has particular counseling expertise in anxiety disorders and working with trauma survivors. Cahill is also a clinical psychiatry faculty member in the School of Medicine and Dentistry.<\/p>\n
Said Hochang Lee, chair of URMC\u2019s Department of Psychiatry and the John Romano Professor of Psychiatry: \u201cUCC clinicians are faculty members of URMC and clinicians and teachers of the highest caliber, and we are committed to supporting UCC\u2019s mission. Providing counseling and behavioral health services for University students is of paramount importance to Department of Psychiatry, and the University as a whole,\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n
Cahill is also an active member of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies, currently serving on its board of directors.<\/p>\n
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