Current Committee Members:
Faculty Advisor
Holly Cormier, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Holly Cormier is the director of the Southern Illinois University Clinical Center and a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Cormier was born and raised in Canada and received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2004. Dr. Cormier has a number of professional and clinical interests including student mentorship and training, community outreach, and clinical practice. With respect to the latter, Dr. Cormier has special interests in working with trauma, disordered eating, and depression. Her clinical practice is heavily influenced by psychodynamic and feminist theory.
Committee Organizer
Caleb Fogle, M.S. (he/him/his)
Caleb is a 4th-year graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program in the adult track. His research interests include intervention processes and outcomes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), parental psychological flexibility, and serious mental health concerns. Clinically he is interested in applying ACT across various contexts (e.g., inpatient facilities, forensic facilities), as well as exploring other functionally contextual practices. Caleb’s career goals include serving the community through a clinically-oriented career, providing consultation, and supervising aspiring clinicians.
Social Media Manager
Nicole Greenwood, B.A. (she/her/hers)
Nicole is a 2nd-year graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program in the child track. Her research interests are in neurodevelopment disorders (specifically in ASD and ADHD), reading disorder and assessments. She is also interested in traumatic brain injuries and the effects this has on child development. Clinically, she has experience working as a behavioral therapist, working one on one with children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder. She has interests working with children and caregivers, as well as giving neuropsychological assessments. Nicole’s career goals including working in a hospital setting as a clinical neuropsychologist, working with a variety of disorders, including concussion and traumatic brain injury cases, and conceptualizing cases based on psychological and neuropsychological assessments.
Network Representative
Cerella Chandra, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Cerella is a 4th-year graduate student in the Adult track of the SIU Clinical Psychology program. Her research interests include anxiety and mood disorders, as well as intersectionality in intervention research. Clinically, Cerella is interested in working as a practitioner in a state psychiatric hospital.
Treasurer
Genni Newsham, B.A. (she/her/hers)
Genni is a 4th-year graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program in the child track. Her research interests include neurodevelopmental disorders, executive function, pragmatics, and assessment. Clinically, she has special interests in working with youth with neurodevelopmental disorders and their parents and conducting neuropsychological assessments with children and adolescents. Genni’s career goals include working in an academic medical center conducting research, performing assessments, teaching, and mentoring students.
Events Organizer
VanKe’via Garner, M.S.
VanKe’via is a graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program on the adult track. Her research interests include criminal desistance, the reintegration process of offenders, and substance and mental health treatment of justice-involved populations. Clinically, she has an interest in providing therapeutic services and psychological assessments with justice-involved populations, specifically individuals being released from incarceration. VanKe’via’s career goals are to help address the psychological and social needs of returning citizens as they transition back into their communities. Her intention is to provide returning citizens with psychological treatment and assessment services that will promote desistance and transformation. She is also the host of More Life: The Reentry Podcast, a podcast about offender reentry, advocacy, and reform: https://rss.com/podcasts/morelifethereentrypodcast/
Secretary
Katie Hnetkovsky
Katie is a 3rd-year graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program in the child track. Her research interests are in upstander behavior, bullying, risk and resilience, effects of trauma on development, and neuropsychological assessment. Clinically, she has interest in providing treatment services and conducting psychological and neuropsychological assessments with children and adolescents. Katie’s career goals include working as a neurodevelopmental psychologist in an academic medical setting conducting research, administering assessments, mentoring students, and providing therapy services.
Members at Large:
Morgan Franklin, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Morgan is a 4th-year clinical psychology graduate student in the adult track. Her research interests include treatment outcomes, technology-enhanced interventions, and examining processes of change proposed in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy framework. Morgan has experience working with substance use, obsessive-compulsive disorder, mood and anxiety disorders, and justice-involved youth. Morgan hopes to gain a position with a research-oriented VA, where she may be able to balance her passions for research and clinical work.
Jessica Hinojosa, M.S. (she/her/hers)
Jessica is a 2nd-year graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program in the child track. Her research interests are in pediatric psychology (e.g., factors that affect chronic illness adjustment for children and families) and behavioral sleep medicine (e.g., developing interventions that target sleep hygiene). She is also interested in the bidirectional relationship between sleep quality and chronic health conditions. Clinically, she has interests in providing treatment and conducting assessments with children, adolescents and emerging adults with chronic health conditions. Jessica’s career goals include working as a pediatric psychologist in a children’s hospital, conducting research, teaching, assessment administration, and mentoring students.
Catherine Forster, B.A. (she/her)
Cat is a 2nd-year graduate student in the SIU Clinical Psychology program in the child track, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Before moving to Carbondale, she lived in New England for six years. Her research interests include youth risk behavior, adverse childhood experiences, and multilingual community-based interventions and fidelity. Cat previously worked as a research coordinator on Project STRONG, an NIH-funded study that tests a bilingual web-based intervention to enhance emotion regulation skills and family communication to decrease adolescent boys’ risk for dating violence involvement. Cat’s career goals include providing evidence-based services, particularly for Spanish-speaking families, conducting culturally-informed intervention and prevention research, and psychological assessment. She also hopes to mentor underrepresented students and trainees in child psychology.
Lauren Bandel, B.A.
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Previous Committee Members:
Jennifer Schlak, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Zsofia Imre, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Bryant Stone
Emily Bartholomay, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Amanda Chamberlain, M.A. (she/her/they/them)