Associate Professor & Program Chair, Counselor Education

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• CE 510. Introduction to the Profession of Counseling
• CE 625A. Internship I: CMH Counseling
• CE 637. Management of Clinical Mental Health Programs

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• Ph.D. Counseling, August 2013, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
• M.S. Community Mental Health Counseling, May 2009, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY.
• B.A. Psychology, May 2006, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY.

I was an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, for three years prior to joining the faculty at St. Bonaventure.

I am a clinical professional counselor in Nevada, where I provided consultation to school districts and agencies as well as provided supervision to counseling interns.

Prior to that I was working as a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with adolescents from the Palm Beach County School District through the High School Grant Initiative program. These students were initially identified due to academic reasons, however they were also struggling with trauma, depression, anxiety, family conflict and substance abuse.

I also have experience as a crisis counselor working with individuals who were actively suicidal and/or homicidal.

Referred Journal Articles

• Luedke, A. J., Peluso, P. R., Diaz, P., Freund, R., & Baker, A. (April, 2017). Predicting Dropout in Therapy Using Affect Coding of the Therapeutic Relationship: An Empirical Analysis. Journal of Counseling & Development, 95, 125-134. doi: 10.1002/jcad.12125 

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I strongly believe that students are successful when given experiential opportunities in the classroom. It is imperative they be able to see how what they are learning is applicable and utilized to help them be successful with their future clients. 

Since 2010 I have been involved in a research project with a team from Florida Atlantic University that studies the therapeutic relationship. Our goal is that by studying nonverbal and verbal communication we can gain a better understanding of what is happening in counseling relationships to increase retention rates. This is also related to how we teach counseling skills and about the counseling relationship to give students the skills to think like master clinicians do.

I am also working on a study involving live supervision and the impacts for counseling interns and their clients in receiving live supervision in comparison to more traditional models.

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